AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)

“AI systems… will transform the discipline: they will make philosophy more capital-intensive. “ The following is a guest post by David Strohmaier, a philosopher and computer scientist in the Natural Language and Information Processing group at the University of Cambridge. In it, he explains why he thinks it’s reasonable to believe that AI systems will eventually have the capacities to “drive” philosophy, and how this will change the economics of philosophy. AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophyby David Strohmaier Introduction Generative AI has arrived in philosophy. Not only do journals receive significant numbers of AI-generated papers of dubious quality, there has also been increasing talk of AI work dedicated to philosophy.1 I have observed these developments as a researcher working in both AI and philosophy and, from that perspective, want to lay out a shift I see coming for philosophy and why I endorse it: philosophy will become a capital-intensive…