Tag: technology
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AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer…
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An Open Letter from Academics about AI Risk / Life Without the Internet & the Case for Non-Network Redundancy
There has been an increase in concern over AI destroying humanity, most recently spurred by tweets from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon about how…
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Careful with those Accusations
Academia is in turmoil regarding partially or wholly AI-written research. AI-written work is being submitted to journals, but it isn’t clear how much. Publisher,…
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After Experiment, Journal Decides to Prohibit AI-Authored Content
Earlier this month, the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published an article largely written by an AI.
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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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The Philosophy Job Market Deepfake (guest post)
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers!
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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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When There’s no Fun in Funding: External Research Money, Ethics-Washing, and Positive Academic Freedom (guest post)
Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet…
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Philosopher to Head Australian Government’s AI Safety Institute
Kate Conroy, a philosopher who has held various positions in academia, government, and industry, has been chosen to lead the recently established Australian AI…
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The Market for Scholar Replicas
Why should a department hire some fresh PhD when it could instead hire Derek Parfit, Daniel Dennett, Judy Thomson, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Barcan Marcus,…
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New AI Model Has a Taste for Philosophy
The AI firm Anthropic recently shared a detailed description of the various capabilities and safety risks of Claude Mythos Preview, a new AI model…
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Major Grant Awarded for Work on the Philosophy of Neurotechnology
Four philosophers are leading an interdisciplinary team spanning the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford that has received a £1 million grant from the United Kingdom…
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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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Is Artificial General Intelligence Here?
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”