Stanford University adjunct professor Sebastian Thrun launched PhilosophyBench, an independent academic benchmark to evaluate the capabilities and limitations of AI systems at writing English-language…
Philosopher Molly Gardner of the University of Florida authored and made public yesterday an open letter from academics warning of a possible "global catastrophe" from AI and calling on political lead…
Philosophers Elliott Thornley and Zachary Goodsell of the National University of Singapore have launched an essay contest for submissions that are "primarily AI-generated," aiming to "gauge the philos…
Kathleen Creel, formerly assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, has joined the University of Michigan as associate professor of philosophy, effective August…
Philosophy & Public Affairs, a philosophy journal, has decided to prohibit AI-authored content after publishing an AI-written article as an experiment earlier this month. The policy, announced by asso…
Jonathan Surovell (Texas State University) and Dona Warren (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) highlight two online argument mapping tools, Argumentation.io and Because, for philosophy instruction…
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 Ho…
The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy, a new diamond open-access journal published by LMU Munich, is now open for submissions, with co-editors-in-chief Jürgen Landes and Lennart Ackermans leading the…
Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) has raised questions about the use of AI in graduate admissions, specifically regarding writing samples and personal statements, and whether philosophy departments should consi…
The University of Edinburgh's Department of Philosophy has adopted a default policy prohibiting the use of AI in all assessed coursework, including essays, dissertations, and take-home exams, to prese…
Daily Nous is soliciting suggestions for AI and philosophy readings suitable for undergraduate courses, asking for titles, authors, and course contexts, with an acknowledgment of the irony in assignin…
A philosophy professor who accepted a referee invitation for a generalist journal became convinced the submission was mostly AI-written, but the editor disagreed, leaving the professor to write reject…
Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosophy professor at UC Riverside, argues that philosophy journals should reject AI-written submissions because the fact that a text was generated by an expert human provides m…
Udo Schuklenk, a professor of philosophy at Queen's University and editor of the journal Bioethics, reported receiving a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East with strong evi…
A new edition of the Mini-Heap from Daily Nous collects recent links of philosophical interest, including discussions of aphantasia and empiricism by Uku Tooming and Roomet Jakapi, AI ethics and moral…
Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist at King's College London, argues in a New York Times op-ed that AI tools like Google's AI answers undermine curiosity by shortening the time between asking a ques…
A guest post by Aaron Kagan, founder of GraspingAI and chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Non-Academic Careers, argues that media reports about a boom in philosophy jobs at…
Cailin O'Connor (UC Irvine) and Craig Callender (UC San Diego) have published an open letter calling for philosophy journals to require authors to disclose industry ties and conflicts of interest, cit…
A growing number of academically-trained philosophers are taking non-academic roles at AI firms and organizations, according to a Daily Nous report. Notable examples include Amanda Askell, Joe Carlsmi…
The New York Times reports that philosophy majors are in high demand at AI firms, with companies hiring philosophers to tackle questions of ethics, consciousness, and reasoning in artificial intellige…