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  1. Mark Robert Taylor's avatar

    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

  2. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  3. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

  4. Charles Pigden's avatar

    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

  5. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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  7. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

Analysis of recent job placement data in philosophy

I confess I was a bit surprised when the APA funded a study of job placement data by Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced), given her past work.  But a report of their findings is now on-line, and it looks like Prof. Jennings and her colleagues did a quite careful job.  Do read the caveats and preliminary material with care; in particular, note that many schools did not respond to requests for data.  Notwithstanding, it's interesting material, and will be of particular interest, I imagine, to those concerned with the role of gender in hiring.

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