Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

is a philosopher and philologist. Having worked for a long time on the problem of the decipherment of dead languages (in particular Old Nubian and to a lesser extent Meroitic) and its philosophical implications and foundations, he has recently turned his attention to the questions of interpretability and alignment of large language models and AI more generally.

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AI and Constitutive Power (Or: The Humanities Have Not Yet Entered the Chat)

We are asleep at the wheel. And with "we" I mean those of us who have made the humanities their field of inquiry. While the world is currently experiencing the exponential growth of a technology at least initially based and trained on human language, the debate around the future and safety of this technology is…

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