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It would be a shame if bad philosophy of mind got us all killed. AI can absolutely have desires and…
Does AI really pose an existential risk? Answer: Yes. Reason: There is a pattern of people leaving these companies (foregoing…
This is a load of cobblers. Philosophers need to read more Searle & watch less 2001. Computers, however fancy, are…
I wonder how feasible and time-intensive it would be to make it a standard policy check for undisclosed AI usage.…
One provocative read (if you can get past the sensationalistic headline) is econ blogger Noah Smith’s substack post from last…
Yes. This topic is hard to talk about because it ticks all the boxes for what one might rave about…
Not sure it is obvious that it is the dog wagging the tail. It might well be that the tail…
Karin Nisenbaum (Kant, 19th & 20th-century Continental philosophy), currently an advanced Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, will become Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University this fall; she is likely to come up for tenure before long.
(Frederick Beiser, a leading scholar of Kant and 19th-century German philosophy at Syracuse University, will be retiring at the end of 2021-22 academic year.)
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