Tag: artificial intelligence AI
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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.
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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”.
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Reviewing an LLM-written paper (guest post)
A philosopher noticed something off about the paper he was refereeing for a journal.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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?“
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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…
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You Don’t Need an AI Policy — You Need Two (guest post)
What will tell your students about whether and how they may use AI for work you assign?
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The Ethics of Using AI in Philosophical Research
“How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?”
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How to Justify an AI Ban in Your Classroom (Guest Post)
“I don’t want to be a cop in the classroom. So, it’s… important for students to come to the same conclusion themselves and understand…
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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…
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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…
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Teaching Humanities in the AI Era: Is this the Bargaining or the Acceptance Stage?
“What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.”