Amir Kiani
Virtuous Machines is where artificial intelligence meets philosophy.
Hosted by Amir Kiani — a data & AI practitioner with a philosophy PhD — this channel explores the ethical, philosophical, and societal questions behind emerging technologies.
From AI safety and military applications to consciousness, reasoning, and machine rights, each episode dives deep into the issues shaping our future. You’ll hear solo explorations, guest conversations with leading thinkers, and mini-series like Battlefield Ethics and Reasoning Machines.
New episodes every other week — plus short clips and insights between full shows.
Keywords: #ai #aiethics #AIpilosophy #artificialintelligence #philosophy #ethics #machinelearning #AIsafety #AIgovernance #AIconsciousness #AIrights #llm #chatgpt #genai
💡If you’d like to be a guest on Virtuous Machines, know someone who should be, or want to get involved with the podcast in other ways, reach out at: contact@virtuousmachines.com
Amir Kiani
Can AI really think, or are we just projecting human traits onto machines? 🤖💭
Join me for a live session hosted by the AI Collective, where I explore how far intelligence, reasoning, and rationality truly extend in advanced AI systems.
📅 Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025
🕓 4 to 5 PM ET | Live on Roam
🔗 Reserve your spot here: luma.com/72n3zhlj
There's a lot of noise around whether chatbots like ChatGPT are conscious, have minds, or display rationality and intelligence similar to humans. The pace of advances, combined with hyped headlines and confident explanations from brilliant engineers, can make it easy to lose sight of decades of research by philosophers, logicians, and cognitive scientists.
In this first session of a three-part series, I will introduce and clarify these technical terms -- intelligence, reasoning, and rationality -- and reflect on them in light of advanced AI systems. In the following two sessions, I will turn to concepts of mind and consciousness, bringing both philosophical perspectives and evidence from recent AI research. The goal of this series is to shed light on these often misunderstood concepts and give the audience some practical knowledge for navigating their own thinking and decision-making about the promises and limits of AI.
I will also be recording a few podcast episodes on these in the near future, so stay tuned for that!
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Amir Kiani
Hey everybody! New video to drop on Monday! It's on a very recent paper by Meta AI that shows how some cutting-edge models learn physics, which has some important philosophical implications that I'll explore..
Stay tuned!!
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