Tag: artificial intelligence AI
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AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer…
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New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Sebastian Thrun, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and adjunct professor at Stanford University (whose projects have included Waymo, Google X, Google Street View, and more)…
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An Open Letter from Academics about AI Risk / Life Without the Internet & the Case for Non-Network Redundancy
There has been an increase in concern over AI destroying humanity, most recently spurred by tweets from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon about how…
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Testing AI’s Philosophical Writing with a Contest
A pair of philosophers have launched a contest in which participants submit essays that are “primarily AI-generated”. The aim of the competition is to…
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Careful with those Accusations
Academia is in turmoil regarding partially or wholly AI-written research. AI-written work is being submitted to journals, but it isn’t clear how much. Publisher,…
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After Experiment, Journal Decides to Prohibit AI-Authored Content
Earlier this month, the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published an article largely written by an AI.
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Revisiting “Slow Philosophy”
Over a decade ago, Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh) asked us to seriously consider an idea of Annette Baier‘s regarding tenure and promotion decisions. Recent technological…
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Graduate Admissions in the AI Era
Are applicants to your graduate program using AI to create their admissions materials? Do you know? How? And what, if anything, should your department…
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Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s
[Originally published on May 27, 2026. Reposted by request.] Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what…
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AI & Philosophy Readings for Undergraduate Courses
Artificial intelligence is relevant to so many philosophical subfields, and its increased presence in our lives makes it a ripe topic to cover in…
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If You Think You’re Refereeing an AI-Written Submission, What Should You Do?
You’re refereeing a paper and you come to suspect it was substantially and/or illicily written by an LLM. What should you do?
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A Meta-Epistemological Reason for Rejecting AI-Written Philosophy
“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text…
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The Philosophy Job Market Deepfake (guest post)
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers!
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Time for Philosophy’s COI Policies to Grow Up (guest post) (updated)
“Philosophy’s broadening impact has generated increasing interest from industries looking to partner with academic philosophers. Ties are now especially common between philosophers and technology…
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Philosophers Working in or with AI Firms & Organizations (updated)
(Originally published on March 17th, 2026.) To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for…
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Writing Together: A Teaching Experiment (guest post)
“I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory over the course of multiple weeks—doing…
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A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post)
“The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. That would be both impossible and undesirable. The…
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AI in the Philosophy Job Market (guest post) (updated)
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a reporter working on a story about the extent to which AI, as a topic of…