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Can you lose your free speech even when you are not prevented from saying anything? To answer this question, let us consider two ways in which governments could regulate AI chatbots in the near future.

First, imagine a government prohibiting the commercialization of AI chatbots that fail to meet safety benchmarks. For instance, chatbots should not provide users with...

Standing atop a skyscraper, gazing out over the sea of buildings below, we may be tempted to call what lays before us an “urban landscape.” After all, we are admiring the stunning effect of the setting sun, the undulation of light it creates on the rooftops below at different heights, similar to the experience we have when standing on a hilltop or on a cliff by the ocean. How...

Societies carry existing violences and discriminations into the technological apparatuses they produce. Never mind how we use those machines, we are complicit. In this post, I suggest introducing students to (the critical philosophy of) AI through these ethical and political challenges. Furthermore, I suggest inspiring students to find creative ways to appropriate an...

The syllabus here is from my second time teaching “Writing and Reading Philosophy” (PHIL 2400) this past spring at Utah Valley University. At a moment when large language models seem to offer students a quick solution to their anxieties about school work—but this “solution” is shown to lead to declines in students’ writing, reading, and critical thinking abilities—I found it ...

Introduction

First launched in 2025 as part of Black History Month programming, the project has grown into what is now titled the