{"slug": "philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post", "title": "Philosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose (guest post)", "summary": "Philosophy & Public Affairs published an article written mostly by Anthropic's Claude, an LLM, with the thesis and editing by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. The journal's editor-in-chief, Jason Brennan of Georgetown, said Wiley's guidelines permit substantial AI use with disclosure, and Claude is not listed as an author because Wiley does not allow AI systems as authors. Goldstein's article is the first known case of a top philosophy journal knowingly publishing a largely AI-authored piece.", "body_md": "Philosophy & Public Affairs recently—and knowingly—published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic’s LLM. The article’s thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, who, he says, “worked with Claude the way a heavy-handed supervisor writes with a PhD student in some fields.” Professor Goldstein edited some of Claude’s writing, focused the topic, developed some of the article’s arguments, corrected some errors, and approved the various drafts. Claude did the rest. In the guest post below, Professor Goldstein explains his process, explains why he did it, offers some advice for others interested in having AIs write philosophy, and raises some questions about it all. The author of the published PPA article is listed as “Simon Goldstein”. Claude’s use is mentioned in the “acknowledgments” section of the paper, which, under the journal’s current layout, appears at the end of the article. Claude is not listed as an author, because, as PPA’s editor-in-chief Jason Brennan (Georgetown) explained in an email, Wiley, PPA’s publisher, does not allow AI systems to be listed as authors. But it does not rule out their use. He writes, “Wiley’s guidelines (like those of many other publishers) expressly state that the use of AI in manuscript development is not itself grounds for rejection, and they contemplate substantial uses—including text generation, restructuring arguments, and assistance with argument and logic—provided those uses are appropriately disclosed and the human author remains responsible for the work.” In response to questions about the journal’s policies regarding AI use by authors, Professor Brennan said: PPA does not currently have a formal policy governing authors’ use of generative AI. The norms surrounding AI-assisted scholarship are developing and changing quickly, and I don’t think it’s wise to pretend that all of the relevant questions have already been settled… Wiley’s guidelines call for AI assistance with manuscript drafting to be disclosed in the acknowledgments, which is what Simon has done here. Whether journals should require even more prominent disclosure in cases involving AI assistance on this scale is a reasonable question and something PPA and other journals will need to think through as such cases become more common. Indeed, we’ll be interested to see what arguments emerge in the..\n\nThe post [Philosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose (guest post)](https://dailynous.com/2026/08/13/philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post/) first appeared on [Daily Nous](https://dailynous.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post", "canonical_source": "https://dailynous.com/2026/08/13/philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post/", "published_at": "2026-08-13 12:07:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 12:22:01.407797+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Philosophy & Public Affairs", "Anthropic", "Claude", "Simon Goldstein", "Jason Brennan", "Georgetown University", "Wiley", "Daily Nous"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/philosophy-journal-publishes-largely-ai-authored-article-on-purpose-guest-post.jsonld"}}