For years, philosophy graduates have been the “butt of jokes about unemployable degrees”, said Thibault Spirlet in Business Insider. Now, they can earn six-figure salaries as the “world’s most ...

TEN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should “learn to code”. That may have been bad ...

There is a belief that AI training may be able to benefit from some of the ancient lessons of philosophy. The rise of the artificial intelligence era is changing expectations about careers. While ...

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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 ...

Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Whereas Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel could count as optimists (people who think that human life will improve), Schopenhauer is the first (and last) thinker in all ...

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 ...

Former Goldman Sachs analyst Sam Dogen — also known as the Financial Samurai online — decided to cash in on a huge chunk of his investments in 2023 to buy a "forever home" for his family (1). But by ...