Without Why
B. Scot RoussePhilosophy, Technology, and AI. "The problem with artificial intelligence is (still) that computers don't (yet?) give a damn."
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Machine Consciousness and Moral Vertigo
Title slide for my talk at the Machine Consciousness 0001 event. The visual motif is from Saul Bass’s design work for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Here lies my presentation on “Machine Consciousness and Moral Vertigo” from the Machine Consc...
Two AI Conferences and Eight Punk Shows
Slide from my talk “Machine Consciousness and Moral Vertigo” - delivered at the Machine Consciousness 0001 event in Berkeley, May 31, 2026. Image adopted from Saul Bass’s title sequence of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Philosophy, AI, &...
An Exploration of Artificial Self-consciousness
Cover slide for my recently published talk at the AAAI
New Research Published
The full-text of the research I presented last month at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has now been published in the A...
A Conversation on AI Safety and Ethics
Screen Grab from YouTube
This week I’d like to share a conversation I had while in Paris at the end of February for the meeting of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI.
The conversation was hosted by Adel Chaibi, a...
Can AI Help Us Become Who We Are?
To ChatGPT: “Bleak 1970s sci-fi paperback illustration, a person facing an old computer terminal that projects a past version of themselves, while their present body subtly transforms into another silhouette, minimal composition, neon green...
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B.’s substack, "Without Why," focuses on what it means to be alive in an age of intelligent machines. He is a lecturer and visiting scholar in Philosophy at UC Berkeley and an affiliate researcher at Topos Institute. He also drums in 3 punk bands.
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