Philosophers Working in or with AI Firms & Organizations (updated)

(Originally published on March 17th, 2026.) To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers? [Refik Anadol, “Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations” (detail)]AI raises questions across various domains of philosophical expertise, including philosophy of mind, ethics, philosophy of language, epistemology, decision theory, political philosophy, philosophy of computing, etc. What roles are philosophers playing in the firms creating AI technologies, in the consultancies advising them, in non-profit organizations trying to keep an eye on them, in government regulation of them? Amanda Askell of Anthropic may be the most visible philosopher in a non-academic AI role at the moment, but she is not the only one. Also at Anthropic are Joe Carlsmith, Ben Levinstein, and Jackson Kernion. Google DeepMind has Iason Gabriel, Adam Bales, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Arianna Manzini, Julia Haas, and probably others. The Center for…