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Black-and-white head shots of David Chalmers, Dillon Plunkett, Rosie Campbell and Robert Long.
Aaron Wojack for The New York Times (top left); Ian C. Bates for The New York Times
Call it the revenge of the philosophy majors: With the rise of artificial intelligence, cutting-edge labs like Anthropic and DeepMind are hiring experts who can rigorously answer fundamental questions about morality and existence. “It’s an area I encourage students to go into,” one professor said. “I think these issues with A.I. will be front and center for a good while.”
Read more about why one of humanity’s oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions may be made for each other.
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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