Announcing the Call for Papers for Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing! Rapid AI progress is raising *so many* philosophical questions; but philosophers aren't as involved in the conversation as they should be, for many different reasons. One is that, aside from some work in logic and philosophy of mind, philosophy of AI and computing has often sat on the margins of the discipline. One reason for *that* is that so many philosophers working on AI have had to do so basically on their own, figuring things out for themselves as they go along, without a real community around them. OSPAIC is going to help fix this! We're going to have an annual conference and volume. The conference (in DC! where much of the future of AI will be decided) is especially important as we think about the nature of intellectual life in a world where AI systems can one-shot a superficially-plausible philosophy paper. OSPAIC sees philosophical progress as being about more than just the accumulation of true claims. The conference is a big part of our vision for how we contribute to philosophical progress. And our aim is also to help philosophers be part of the broader public conversation! To that end we're also going to be launching, soon, a subcode on arXiv for philosophical foundations of AI (cs.pfai), and encouraging everyone who submits to OSPAIC to also upload their draft to arXiv (at present, use keyword PFAI). We're also partnering with @cosmos_inst, who will be sponsoring an annual prize for the best paper on philosophy and AI, as well as helping fund the first round of the conference and Open Access publication for the volume. And with Cosmos we'll be highlighting some of the most interesting submissions to cs.pfai as they come in. I'm the executive editor; Jeff Howard (UCL) and Rachael Sterken (University of Hong Kong) are associate editors; Ned Howells-Whitaker (JHU and Pittsburgh) is the assistant editor. We're grateful for the support of a wonderful advisory editorial board, including brilliant philosophers and computer scientists from academia, industry, and civil society. The deadline for submissions is 11.59pm Feb 14, 2027, anywhere on earth. All details are at ospaic.org.

I continue to find this view baffling. It presupposes that the only reason people have power over elites is through their labour, but this is historically just not true. The masses have power over elites when and because they organise, collectively, and increase the costs of elite self-prioritisation. Strikes/withdrawal of labour are one way to do that, but so is, frankly, revolution (in highly kinetic forms as well as more non-violent ones). Of course we can stipulate that, using AI, elites will be able to protect themselves against this kind of mass political action. But (a) massive oppression is very hard to do (big cold-start problem in democracies) and (b) the moral costs will be extraordinary; it's not unreasonable to believe that elites will be unwilling to engage in the level of psychotic coercive control that would be needed to leave the masses entirely out in the cold. This doesn't make for an especially bright future—still very likely that the kind of bargain that can be won by this means won't be great. But the political economy isn't hopeless...