Call for Students, Mentees, and Early Career Researchers

There are increasing numbers of philosophy jobs in AI but not enough senior people training PhDs or mentoring early career researchers. If you are considering a pivot to AI, and want to hear ideas for how to BOTH fulfil a real social need and do great philosophy, or just want to talk through your plans, feel free to reach out.

MINT can help with ideas on how to make the pivot, suggest readings, or points of contact between your subfield and computing—there are many more than you might think! It's not just about the moral/political/legal philosophy side of things. There's exciting work happening in philosophy of data science and AI, in action theory and AI planning, in formal epistemology and decision theory and AI, in philosophy of statistics, in social epistemology and many other areas.

Seth and the researchers at MINT are committed to creating the pathways for new entrants to this field to make a big impact within philosophy and on the interdisciplinary scene. But there's also a risk—universities see the demand, and rush to find junior folks to fill that demand, without providing them with the kind of support and mentorship that they need to unify their research and teaching lives. The dynamic can fast become extractive. It's incumbent on those in more senior roles to ensure that we provide that mentorship and support, and those structures to enable people to work where there is demand, while also getting tenure and feeling at home in their own department.

Any PhD students or early career researchers either working on philosophy and computing, or considering a pivot, please reach out! You can DM Seth at his Twitter account or use the MINT contact page.