FHSU Philosophy Program

10/05/2026

"A society in which machines do everything for us would provide abundance while depriving us of agency and meaning."

What Ada Lovelace can teach us as we develop artificial intelligence.

08/19/2026

07/05/2026

"One of humanity’s oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions feel distinctly made for each other. A.I. presents a fresh way for philosophers to ask ancient questions, and its own set of new ones that they are uniquely trained to engage with"

A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now?

04/15/2026

The developing field of AI "Interpretability," revealing the profound epistemological difficulties involved in trying to interpret something that doesn't actually understand anything in the first place:

For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain.