#AI companies are hiring the worst and most shameless philosophers on Earth for what is called #EthicalLubrication:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-philosophers

The sheer amout of effective altruists among these opportunist fuckers is astonshing.

The sophists of our day. Fueling the delusion of our age.

I wonder how an Amanda Askell, Iason Gabriel, or Henry Shevlin can look into the mirror and how they still sleep at night.

Have they drunk the #koolaid or are they just the cynical bastards they appear to be?

Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers

The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind

The Economist