Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath of wars, especially lost wars. Socrates served in the losing Athenian army in the Peloponnesian War; Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” while in exile in ...

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 ...

For years, ambitious students eager to make their mark in Silicon Valley pursued degrees such as computer science, software engineering and data analytics—formerly dependable pathways that, in the age ...

AI Ethicist Henry Shevlin is moving from Cambridge to DeepMind. The philosopher—who has spent years studying whether AI systems can have moral status, published on how you'd detect consciousness in a ...

Henry Shevlin's hiring reflects a broader shift underway across the AI industry. Google DeepMind has appointed Henry Shevlin to the role of Philosopher, one of the more unusual job titles to emerge ...

Google DeepMind hired Henry Shevlin, a leading philosopher of mind and AI ethics, to serve as an in-house philosopher. The appointment marks one of the most prominent instances of a major AI lab ...

When people think about artificial intelligence, they usually imagine engineers or programmers building complex systems. But at Anthropic, one of the important people shaping how AI behaves is ...

A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ...

SÃO PAULO — Geometric abstraction occupies such a prominent place in the history of Brazilian modern and contemporary art that I was surprised to hear that the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) ...

The central issue in the post-Cold War world is the emergence of new matters on the global political agenda, particularly linked to variables of identity and interest, as well as the nature of actors ...