Atoosa Kasirzadeh and Seth Lazar defend philosophers in AI labs, countering Judea Pearl's claim that they lack computational grounding

Why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-philosophers? https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-philosophers?giftId=ZGZjZmQ2ZmYtMmM3OC00NjM3LTg2YzQtOGJkMWQ5ZDVkNGIy&utm_campaign=gifted_article If they do, it's a big mistake -- philosophers are great in posing problems that people finds intruiging, but not too great in solving any of them. Why? Because they didn't have a laboratory to test their ideas, namely a computer.