AI and the job market for philosophers

Via Brian Leiter, here is an analysis of how AI figures in philosophy job ads these days. Misc. notes: I disagree with Prof. Leiter's pessimism about the prospects of making good hires here ("This is going to result in a lot of weak appointments..."). It's perfectly true that philosophers don't have long experience with generative AI, and that almost no philosophers have expertise in the full range of issues required to work proficiently on this subject. But nobody has long experience with generative AI, and almost nobody has expertise in that full range of issues. This domain needs philosophical work, and philosophers ought to be doing (at least some of) that work. There is a long tradition of philosophers' providing intellectual leadership amid collective ignorance, and now is a good time to draw on that tradition. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding Prof. Leiter (could "as huge as you thought it was" be a wry joke?), but I don't read Prof. Lassiter's analysis as finding a "huge" amount of…