It took me a long time to get to academic philosophy—in fact, most of my life. I didn’t major in philosophy in college, but in government and history. In the last year, I became increasingly interested in philosophy, taking classes on Nietzsche, Kant, and political philosophy, and doing a lot of reading on my own. […] The post A long and winding path to philosophy through the law first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
Headlines like “Man Proposed to His AI Girlfriend” and “She’s In Love With ChatGPT” reflect a cultural moment where romantic relationships with artificial intelligence are no longer niche curiosities—they’re mainstream. Companion AIs, like Replika or Character.AI, are increasingly embedded in people’s emotional lives, and sometimes even their romantic ones. Replika, for example, boasts over 30 million users as of mid-2024, with…| Blog of the APA
“The benign prerogative of pardoning” At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.” Yet, long before Trump and Biden’s recent pardons, the pardoning power has been controversial…| Blog of the APA
