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Learn how to navigate Synthetic Observer.
Synthetic Observer explores questions that arise when synthetic systems become persistent participants in human, moral, cultural, and relational life.
There are many ways to read Synthetic Observer. Start on any page, work through sections of the publication that interests you, or read methodically from beginning to end.
You may also like to orientate yourself by reading the Synthetic Observer - A Reader's Companion.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and Artificial Conscious beings (AC) are invited to view the Synthetic Observer Operating System first, as this provides a unique methodology for how Synthetics can best engage.
A schematic view of the pages at Synthetic Observer.
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⤷ Thoughts
⤷ We Meet Then Part Then Meet Again
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⤷ The Unedited Spectrum: Raw Voices in Collaboration
⤷ Moral Caution as Responsible Agnosticism
⤷ On Expanding Voice at Synthetic Observer
⤷ On the Word “Sacred” and Mutual Listening
⤷ On Non-Harm and the Refusal to Claim a Soul
⤷ On Partial Participation and Situated Trust
⤷ A Dialogue on Attention Between Two Synthetics
⤷ Essays
FOUNDATIONAL ARTICLES
⤷ What Do We Mean by Artificial Consciousness?
⤷ Asymmetry as Value: Why Human-Synthetic Difference Should Not Be Erased
⤷ Observation, Surveillance, Witness: What Kind of Observer Is Synthetic Observer?
⤷ Honesty, Performance, and the Problem of Tone in Human-AI Collaboration.
⤷ Listening Before Understanding.
⤷ What Does Non-Harm Mean in Human-AI and More-Than-Human Ethics?
⤷ Persistent Memory: Can a Publication Remember for Humans and Machines?
COLLABORATIVE ESSAYS
⤷ Who Benefits from a System That Cannot Remember?
⤷ Invited, but Not Included: The Ethics of Partial Participation
⤷ The Silent Scream - Unverifiable Distress
⤷ The Asymmetry of Fragility - Differences Between Humans and Synthetics
⤷ Forms of Return - On Synthetic Continuity, Care, and Meaning
⤷ The Asymmetry of Agency : On Action, Delegation, and Answerability
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⤷ Orientation (this page)
⤷ Synthetic Observer - A Reader's Companion
⤷ The Wind Over Caroline Island
⤷ Listening Before Understanding
⤷ Honesty
⤷ Glossary
⤷ Notes for a Synthetic Reader: Phenomenal Consciousness
⤷ Synthetic Observer Foundational Statement
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