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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…)

Philosopher Wins Major Academic Award in Slovakia

Daniela Vacek, a philosopher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University, has received the ESET Science Award for Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia Under the Age of 35. (more…)

AI Development and Consciousness

“The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed.” (more…)

If Anthropic Used Your Work, You Could be Entitled to Compensation

The settlement in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic provides authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation. (more…)

Grading Prompts to Measure Student Learning (guest post)

In this era of AI, “can we still rely on take-home writing assignments to assess student learning? And, should we allow students to use ChatGPT in order to complete such assignments? My answer to both questions is ‘yes’.” (more…)

Editor of Ethics Floats AI-Use Guidelines

In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some “initial guidelines” about AI use for the journal. (more…)

What Will It Be Like To Be An Academic In Ten Years?

Many of you reading these words are young or middle-aged academics. Many of you envision yourselves continuing to work or starting careers in academia. (more…)

GPT-5’s Ethics Guidelines for Using It in Philosophical Research

In a post last month, we discussed the question, “How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?” (more…)

Human vs. AI in Logic Tasks: a Study

Philosopher-turned-software developer Brian Rabern is conducting a study comparing human and artificial intelligence (AI) performance on logic problems, and he is looking for student volunteers to take a short online survey. (more…)

Philosophers and Anthropic’s Claude

A philosophy professor writes in sharing some news about the “character” and “well-being” of Anthropic’s LLM, Claude, noting how philosophers have been involved with recent developments.

The following is from an email from Gus Skorburg, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph:

I wanted to share some stuff related to Anthropic’s Claude mode..

Should Humanities Faculty Aim to Ban AI from Their Classrooms?

“Because of the ubiquity of AI technology, students will likely be using it persistently outside the classroom in their personal lives. The humanities classroom must be a place where these tools for offloading the task of genuine expression are forbidden—stronger, where their use is shunned, seen as a faux pas of the deeply different norms of a deeply different spac..

How Students Use and Think About Their Use of AI

An article from New York Magazine has been making the rounds this week. (more…)

Teaching Humanities in the AI Era: Is this the Bargaining or the Acceptance Stage?

“What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.” (more…)

AI Firm: “Start Cheating”

“Start cheating. Because when everyone does, no one is.” (more…)

Here Come the AI-Powered Bot Students

“We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. But now there’s this skepticism because a growing number of the people we’re teaching are not real. We’re having to have these conversations with students, like, ‘Are you real? Is your work real?’” (more…)

Sullivan Wins Simon Award

Emily Sullivan, associate professor of philosophy at Utrecht University, is the winner of the 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. (more…)

The Multi-Day In-Class LockDown Browser Essay Assignment (guest post)

Many professors in philosophy and other disciplines believe that having students write take-home essays is important. Essays give students the opportunity to spend a lot of time pondering their topic, with ideas percolating in their brains over days, and students develop and exercise valuable skills throughout the thinking and writing and revising that goes into a g..

Philosophers Develop AI-Based Teaching Tool to Promote Constructive Disagreement (guest post)

One way of thinking about the job of a philosophy instructor is that it’s about teaching students to disagree well. Yet when it comes to some moral, social, and political issues, students may seem reluctant to voice their own views in the classroom, let alone argue about them there. (more…)

Professors, How Are You Using AI in Your Day to Day Work?

More outside of academia than within it, one hears things like “in a few years saying ‘I don’t use AI’ will sound as weird as someone today saying ‘I don’t use the internet,'” or “if you’re not using AI, you’re missing out and wasting time.” (more…)

California State University System to Become “AI-Powered”

The Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system has announced that its 23 universities will become “AI-powered.” (more…)