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French historian of systems of thought — power, discipline and the subject
Collège de France, Chair of the History of Systems of Thought · France · d. 15 October 1926 (Poitiers, Vienne) — 25 June 1984 (Paris)
Elected to the Collège de France in 1969 to a chair he named the History of Systems of Thought, and lectured there until his death. Surveiller et punir (1975) traced the modern prison to a wider discipline that arranges bodies in space; the first volume of his history of sexuality followed in 1976. He died in Paris on 25 June 1984 of an AIDS-related illness, the first well-known French public figure to do so.
Language models now score well on truthfulness tests and badly on honesty tests, a gap the MASK benchmark was built to measure. Two older accounts of truth, Heidegger's unconcealment and Foucault's parrhesia, suggest why: telling the truth has always been something a speaker risks, and a model has nothing to lose.
Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault
The 29th Philosophicum Lech opens in Vorarlberg under the title 'Betreutes Denken', a pun on assisted living that puts Kant's word for immaturity next to artificial intelligence. Vancouver's World Congress on Logic and Religion and Penn's Foucault centenary follow within days, and four meetings in Ghent, Lublin, Bucharest and Berlin have just closed.
Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault
