We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher
18 December 2025This gulf in knowledge could be exploited by a tech industry intent on selling the “next level of AI cleverness”, argues Dr Tom McClelland.
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Tom McClelland
20 March 2024Tom McClelland is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He will be speaking about his and colleague Paulina Sliwa’s recent research findings on the much contested ground of who does the housework and what impact gender has in Seeing the mess: Gender, housework and perception at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science on Thursday 21st March 3-4pm.
Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argue
22 December 2022By adding a gender dimension to the theory of “affordance perception” and applying it to the home, a new hypothesis may help answer questions of why women still shoulder most housework, and why men never seem to notice.
