Tag: artificial intelligence AI
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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…
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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…
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Illicit Use of AI by Philosophers Refereeing for Journals
In 2024, a study found that “7–17% of the sentences in the reviews [of computer science manuscripts] were written by LLMs”. It was only…
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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),…
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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.
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Is Artificial General Intelligence Here?
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”
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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…
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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…
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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…