More news articles, both locally (Courier) and abroad (Irish Times)

The Courier has covered the campaign today (19 August), on the back of The Scotsman, reporting that Prof. Luciano Floridi (Yale) and Prof. Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh) have written directly to Principal Nigel Seaton making the case that philosophy at Dundee should be retained precisely because of its relevance to AI: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/5560432/under-threat-dundee-university-degree-gets-yale-and-oxford-backing/

This follows Joe Humphreys' Unthinkable column in the Irish Times on Monday, which put the Dundee campaign at the centre of a wider argument about philosophy's growing relevance to AI ethics. Oisín spoke to Humphreys for the piece, which points readers directly to savedundeephilosophy.org and uses Amanda Askell's work at Anthropic as its central illustration of the trend: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/17/joe-humphreys-big-tech-wants-to-make-ai-more-ethical-by-hiring-philosophers-or-so-it-says/

-The Philosophy Team