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Topic: philosophy

Raphael's fresco 'The School of Athens.'
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Sunday, 7/5, 01:56 PM

AI companies are hiring philosophers, and here's why

  • Philosophy has long carried a reputation as the least employable of degrees.
  • Now some of the world's most valuable artificial-intelligence companies are hiring philosophers to help decide how their systems should think and behave, giving a very old discipline an unexpected foothold in the tech economy.

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