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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 background research, letting the ideas marinate in one’s subconsciousness, and chiseling away at the draft until every word is perfectly placed.” (more…)

An AI Analyzes Philosophers’ Discussion of AI

Last week I posted about PhilLit, a new AI research tool for philosophers that finds and summarizes philosophical writing. The post generated a lot of comments, which prompted one reader to run a little experiment. (more…)

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, and reviewers. (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…)

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…)

How Students Use and Think About Their Use of AI

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

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…)

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 been increasing, too. (more…)

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 or forms of generative AI? If given the choice, should you go along with it?

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LLM Chatbots Are Now “Peer-Reviewing” Papers

Just when you thought peer review couldn’t get any worse… (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…)

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…)

Reviving the Philosophical Dialogue with Large Language Models (guest post)

“Far from abandoning the traditional values of philosophical pedagogy, LLM dialogues promote these values better than papers ever did.” (more…)

AI & the Professions

Large language models outperform humans as junior lawyers, according to a new study. (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…)

Mind Chunks

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How to Tell Whether an AI Is Conscious (guest post)

“We can apply scientific rigor to the assessment of AI consciousness, in part because… we can identify fairly clear indicators associated with leading theories of consciousness, and show how to assess whether AI systems satisfy them.” (more…)

The AI Threat, the Humanities, and Self-Cultivation

“The humanities are… a gateway to and instigator of a lifelong activity of free self-cultivation. The changes they provoke in us are not always for the happier, or the more remunerative, or the more civically engaged, but when things go passably well, these changes are for the deeper, the more reflective, and the more thoughtful.” (more…)

Resources for Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT & other LLMs

How do large language models (LLMs) affect how we understand our job as teachers, and how does it affect what we should do in order to do that job well? (more…)

Policing Is Not Pedagogy: On the Supposed Threat of ChatGPT (guest post)

“ChatGPT has just woken many of us up to the fact that we need to be better teachers, not better cops.” (more…)

A Case for AI Wellbeing (guest post)

“There are good reasons to think that some AIs today have wellbeing.” (more…)

The AI-Immune Assignment Challenge

AutomatED, a guide for professors about AI and related technology run by philosophy PhD Graham Clay (mentioned in the Heap of Links last month), is running a challenge to professors to submit assignments that they believe are immune to effective cheating by use of large language models. (more…)