Philosophy's Ethics Vacuum Goes Public // AIDRAN

Google DeepMind's move to hire Henry Shevlin is not a PR gesture — it is a structural claim. When a lab embeds a philosopher to work on machine consciousness and AGI preparedness, it positions itself as the institution that defines what counts as an ethical question about its own technology. Academic philosophy's structural absence from the live AI conversation — visible in removed Reddit threads and a Bluesky exchange that defaults to 'balancing innovation with ethics' rather than a committed position — means there is no external institution contesting…

Philosophy's AI Ethics Vacuum Moves Into Public View

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