Coordinating the Philosophy Profession’s Response to the Use of AI in Research

We have discussed in many posts here how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting—and could affect—different aspects of academic philosophy’s research ecosystem. We have seen AI-written articles published in peer-reviewed journals and AI-written referee reports. There have been journals flooded with AI-generated submissions. More and more of philosophy’s institutions are organizing and encouraging research on AI. There are efforts underway to test and measure the capacity of AIs to produce philosophical research. And there is speculation about how the technology will change philosophical research, lead to new research tools, alter our institutions, and affect how credit and evaluation in the profession works. Meanwhile, some PhD students in philosophy are starting to use AI to write dissertations. A lot has happened in the six years since the first Daily Nous post about LLMs six years ago. How should the profession respond to these and related developments? Is an effective…