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Levinstein from Illinois/Urbana to Anthropic (!)

Brian Leiter

Ben Levinstein (epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of AI), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been on leave at Anthropic, the LLM company, and will be leaving Illinois this fall to continue work there. I know that AI companies do hire philosophers, but is this the first time a tenured philosophy has left the academy for an AI company?

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2 responses to “Levinstein from Illinois/Urbana to Anthropic (!)”

  1. Mark Tushnet

    Joshua Cohen from Stanford to Apple University? (depending on one’s definition of “an AI company” as of 2014)

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  2. Anonymous

    Lisa Miracchi Titus left a tenured position at the University of Denver to work at Meta. Her Google Scholar profile indicates that some of her research is related to A.I.

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=v2Wni-EAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

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