Tag: artificial intelligence AI
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.”
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A Philosophically Informed Glossary of Key Concepts in AI
“Part of explaining what an AI system is doing and knowing why it is doing it turns on knowing what (if anything) the system…
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Philosophy of AI / AI Ethics Syllabi, Lessons, Readings
As artificial intelligence (or “artificial intelligence” if you insist) is put to increased use in an increased variety of ways, teaching about it has…
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When Publishers Want to License Your Book to Generative AI Firms (updated)
Is it part of your book contract that your publisher may license your book to the makers of ChatGPT or other large language models…
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Play a Game to Improve a Philosophical Research Tool (guest post)
“What papers talk about P?” “Who argues that P?”
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APA Creates New Prizes for Philosophical Research on AI
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of new prizes for philosophical work on artificial intelligence.
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Say Hello to this Philosopher’s ExTRA
Appropriately enough, Luciano Floridi (Yale), known for his work in the philosophy of information and technology, may be the first philosopher with a… well,…
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BU Dean Recommends Replacing Striking TAs with AIs (updated)
The actual dean of an actual college of arts and sciences at an actual university has actually recommended replacing striking instructors with artificial intelligence…
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New Journal: Philosophy of AI
Philosophy of AI is a new, peer-reviewed, online, open-access philosophy journal.
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Using Generative AI to Teach Philosophy (w/ an interactive demo you can try) (guest post)
Philosophy teachers—Michael Rota, a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), is about to make your teaching a bit better and your life…
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Philosophy’s Digital Future (guest post)
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable…
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AI & the Professions
Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study.