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Best Next Moves: How Philosophers Can Make Good Use of Theory-Driven GPTs (guest post)

We’ve talked previously about some of the various tasks that philosophers might have large language models help them with in their work, mainly focusing on the ethics of doing so. But what about the mechanics of doing so? (more…)

What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated)

Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service. (more…)

If You Want Your Students Completing Their Coursework Without Help from AI…

…how do you make that happen? (more…)

AI and the Ecological Accomplishment of Literacy

“While contemporary discussions often focus on what we read or how we teach reading, the deeper truth is that literacy itself is an astonishingly fragile achievement.” (more…)

A Philosopher’s Reflections on Teaching in a World with AI

“I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” (more…)

Publishers Want To Sell Companies the Right to Train AI on Your Books: Should You Consent?

Should authors consent to have their publishers grant licensing requests by firms and projects to allow them to train their generative AI on their books? (more…)

The Teaching of Writing in the AI Era (Updated)

“Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition that seems doomed to defeat. Perhaps the time has come, then, to declare a strategic withdrawal from writing as pedagogy?” (more…)

“Gpt could easily get a PhD on any philosophical topic”

“If you do it right, talking with Gpt is like talking with someone who’s seriously studied and thought hard about philosophy. Gpt could easily get a PhD on any philosophical topic. More than that, I’ve had many philosophical discussions with professional philosophers that were much less philosophical than my recent chats with Gpt.” (more…)

Harness AI to Help Your Students Learn Basic Logic (and more) (guest post)

Michael Rota, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, has been using AI in his teaching, and is trying to make it easy for you to do so, too. (more…)

New “Human-Centered AI Lab” at Oxford

The Human-Centered AI Lab (HAI Lab) is a new initiative at the University of Oxford that aims to “create a space for technologists and philosophers to collaborate on translating philosophical concepts into open-source software and AI systems, fostering a vibrant community for big-picture thinking about a future of AI that enhances human flourishing.” (more…)

AI As History of Philosophy Tool

How would Aristotle have responded to Newcomb’s problem? What would John Locke have thought about end-user license agreements? What objection would Immanuel Kant raise to your novel reconstruction of one of his arguments? (more…)

One University’s AI Guide for Students, Written with the Help of AI

“When permitted, you can use AI tools for help but not to do the work for you.” (more…)

OpenAI Has Kept Secret an Accurate ChatGPT Detector for Two Years

According to The Wall Street Journal, “OpenAI has a method to reliably detect when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper” but hasn’t released it yet, despite concerns about widespread student cheating on assignments with it, as well as other illicit uses. (more…)

“You’re welcome to utilise AI platforms for creating your vision statement”

Publishing corporation Wiley has updated its pages for Philosophy and Public Affairs, now that its editors have all resigned, and has announced it is seeking new co-editors-in-chief for the journal. (more…)

Academic Publisher Sells Authors’ Work to Microsoft for AI Training

The international academic publishing company Taylor and Francis says “it is providing Microsoft non-exclusive access to advanced learning content and data to help improve relevance and performance of AI systems”. (more…)

New AI Venture Focuses on Mathematical Reasoning

Of possible interest to philosophers working in logic and philosophy of math, as well as anyone curious about the reasoning abilities of artificial intelligence is a new model from Harmonic called “Aristotle”. (more…)

Two Philosophers Bring Expert-Based AI to Your Reading Experience

John Kaag (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) and Clancy Martin (University of Missouri, Kansas City) have teamed up with businessman and philosophy enthusiast John Dubuque to create a new business that brings together great books, expert commentary, and artificial intelligence. (more…)

AI Generated Content and Academic Journals

What are good policy options for academic journals regarding the detection of AI generated content and publication decisions? (more…)

Philosophy, Creativity, and AI

“I sincerely believe that to save the humanities, within which I include philosophy, we are going to have to reconceive what we do as at least in part a creative endeavor—literary, artistic, imaginative, playful, in short, all those things of which a human spirit is capable, and a machine never will be.” (more…)

Teachers: Was the Semester AI-pocalyptic or Was It AI-OK?

A survey conducted at the end of last year indicated that 30% of college students had used ChatGPT for schoolwork. Undoubtedly, the number has gone up since then. Teachers: what have your experiences been like with student use of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs)? (more…)

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