Open letter from philosophers at University of Liverpool in support of the work stoppage protesting the Administration’s firing of faculty in Life & Health Sciences based on citation metrics and grant capture

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Charles Bakker on Here’s why we should be worried about AISeptember 20, 2026
I came across this article today. https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477 Apparently, the (irresponsible) use of AI was partly to blame for the American…
Luis Marxuach on Here’s why we should be worried about AISeptember 20, 2026
I’d just like to add one last point regarding what I’ve been calling, with no technical pretense, the AI/LLM hazard…
Scott on Here’s why we should be worried about AISeptember 20, 2026
I agree fully with this argument. And then I would add, the exponential growth in AI capabilities means that the…
Jasper Wong on Philosopher Harvey Lederman talks about AI “welfare” and related topics…September 19, 2026
Liked the interpretationist stance that individual LLM instances have beliefs and desires, essentially because otherwise it is hard to explain…
Eric Winsberg on Here’s why we should be worried about AISeptember 19, 2026
Well now we know you CANT find arbitrarily close approximations in all cases because there is no true function to…
Mark on Here’s why we should be worried about AISeptember 19, 2026
We’re getting outside my domain of expertise. Like I said, I don’t personally work on fluid dynamics – I work…
eric winsberg on Here’s why we should be worried about AISeptember 19, 2026
Nobody uses the NS equations to find their *real actual solutions* in engineering problems. They use approximations. The math question…