New: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing

A new annual series and accompanying conference has been launched: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing (OSPAIC). The executive editor of OSPAIC is Seth Lazar (Johns Hopkins). Its associate editors are Jeffrey Howard (UCL) and Rachael Sterken (University of Hong Kong). Ned Howells-Whitaker (JHU and Pittsburgh) is the assistant editor. Lazar writes: Rapid AI progress is raising so many philosophical questions; but philosophers aren’t as involved in the conversation as they should be, for many different reasons. One is that, aside from some work in logic and philosophy of mind, philosophy of AI and computing has often sat on the margins of the discipline. One reason for that is that so many philosophers working on AI have had to do so basically on their own, figuring things out for themselves as they go along, without a real community around them. OSPAIC is going to help fix this! We’re going to have an annual conference and volume. The conference (in DC! where much of the…