Philosophy is becoming integral to the development of AI, but some critics accuse the industry of ‘ethics-washing’ ...

T EN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make ...

A growing number of AI labs have been hiring from a surprising pool of candidates: philosophers. NPR's Scott Detrow talks ...

A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now? Clockwise from top left: ...

AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be ...

Philosophy majors are being recruited by AI companies to help decide how machines should think and behave.

Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what ...

Not long ago, "learn to code" served as an earnest suggestion for college students as a path towards making a good living. Now, things have flipped. Computer scientists have flooded the field, leading ...

The open letter doesn't stop at future papers. It asks journals to solicit retroactive disclosures for previously published ...

Alexis Papazoglou writes on philosophy, technology, and politics. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and has taught philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Royal Holloway, ...

This rise in recruitment of philosophers at AI companies is a result of the broader understanding that philosophy offers useful tools for AI development.