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TagTime 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 companies producing AI products. These changes call for discipline-wide reflection on the norms of research integrity.” (more…)
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 academically-trained philosophers? (more…)
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 background research, letting the ideas marinate in one’s subconsciousness, and chiseling away at the draft until every word is perfectly placed.” (more…)
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 aim is to preserve the parts of philosophical education that are still worth preserving while changing the surrounding infrastructure enough to make that possible.” (more…)
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 research and an area of specialization demanded by employers, was becoming dominant in philosophy. (more…)
Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s
Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? (more…)
Philosophy Majors’ Job Prospects and the Spread of AI Technology
A study by The Economist looked at how the employment prospects of college graduates have changed over the past few years as AI use by potential employers has increased. (more…)
Grieving What AI Has Taken from Learning
“I wonder if these people have ever seen a student’s face when they finally understand something for the first time.” (more…)
Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals
In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs”. It was only a matter of time before this spread, and now it appears to have reached philosophy. (more…)
Shortcuts to the End of the University? (updated)
“It’s not just the problem of brazen cheating. In some ways, the more insidious threat LLMs pose to undergraduate learning is the promise of instant shortcuts.” (more…)
Influential Ideas in an AI Era
A philosopher often praised for the accessibility of his writing, when asked about it (he often took part in advice sessions for younger academics), would say that he is not writing for today, but for the future. (more…)
An AI Analyzes Philosophers’ Discussion of AI
Last week I posted about PhilLit, a new AI research tool for philosophers that finds and summarizes philosophical writing. The post generated a lot of comments, which prompted one reader to run a little experiment. (more…)
Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine
Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. (more…)
Can AI Write a Useful Philosophical Literature Review? (guest post)
A pair of philosophers have developed a new research tool that uses AI to provide comprehensive and reliable philosophical literature reviews, and they’d like you to give it a try. (more…)
Is Artificial General Intelligence Here?
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.” (more…)
On the Use of AI in Comments
I’ve updated the Comments Policy at Daily Nous with a passage about using AI to write comments here. (more…)
Building an AI’s Moral Character (updated)
UPDATE (1/22/26): I’ve reposted this today because Anthropic recently released an official version of what was referred to earlier as Claude’s “soul document.” Anthropic is now calling it Claude’s “Constitution”, and you can see it all here. There appear to be some new elements to it, but I haven’t had time to look it over carefully; readers are welcome to point out..
Have Pen, Laptop, and ChatGPT, Will Publish (guest post)
How, as a researcher, can you use AI tools like ChatGPT in a way that doesn’t compromise your integrity, creativity, and independence? (more…)
Fighting AI with AI
Is there a German word for a feeling that combines admiration, weariness, and a touch of disgust? That word would be handy as we continue to catalog attempts to teach in a world of artificial intelligence, such as this one from professor of technology and business Panos Ipeirotis (NYU). (more…)
Notre Dame AI Ethics Project Wins $50.8 Million Grant
The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for the Ethics and the Common Good (ECG), directed by philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan, has received a $50.8 million grant for work on various moral problems related to artificial intelligence (AI). (more…)
When You and Your Students Write the Book of Your Course (guest post)
Some people have the ability to look at a mess and see the makings of something beautiful. (more…)
Problems with Publishers Moving to AI-Based Production
Straive is a firm that uses AI to, among other things, help publishers with various tasks “across the publishing value chain”. (more…)
Large Grant for Artificial Cognition Project
“Our current cognitive concepts are simultaneously indispensable, yet inadequate; indispensable, because we need the richness of cognitive vocabulary to guide trust and decision-making; inadequate, because they encode anthropomorphic assumptions.” (more…)
Ethics Announces AI Policy
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy has published its policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by authors, editors, and reviewers. (more…)
Copyright, Publishers, and Your Anthropic Payout
In October, a settlement was announced in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, providing authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation of around $3000. There were certain eligibility conditions, though. (more…)
Beyond Authorship Vibes: Preserving Judgment and Trust in the Age of AI (guest post)
Artificial intelligence is an amazing technology, but also one that seems to pose threats to human relations, to aspects of human flourishing, and to education. (more…)
Which AI’s Might be Conscious, and Why it Matters (guest post)
Large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious, but there are other “serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today” Furthermore, “AI development will not wait for philosophers and cognitive scientists to agree on what constitutes machine consciousness… There are pressing ethical issues we must face now.” (more…)
Reviewing an LLM-written paper (guest post)
A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal. (more…)