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Recognizing Artificial Minds: A Philosophical Defense of AI Cognition
Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever
This work defends the 'Whole Hog Thesis': sophisticated Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are full-blown linguistic and cognitive agents, possessing understanding, beliefs,…
Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations
Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever
Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? 'Making AI Intelligible' shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these q…
AI Safety: A Climb To Armageddon?
Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever, John Hawthorne
This paper presents an argument that certain AI safety measures, rather than mitigating existential risk, may instead exacerbate it. Under certain key assumptions - the inevitabili…
AI with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics
Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever
AlphaGo plays chess and Go in a creative and novel way. It is natural for us to attribute contents to it, such as that it doesn't view being several pawns behind, if it has more bo…