Over the past 5 years or so, a few people have somewhat proudly said to me that they like to think of AI as artificial intuition. I’ve nodded and pursed my lips in appreciation, although I’ve written off the phrase because intuition is often such a terrible guide. But I’ve been too quick to dismiss it. I think machine learning may be changing my mind about this—not by giving me evidence and reasons, but by reshaping my (and perhaps our) model of knowledge. My failure to take the idea seriously enough comes proximally from my experience teaching philosophy of ethics. Moral intuitionism is one of the West’s standard frameworks, although it doesn’t get much love because we have such clear evidence of … Continue reading AI: Artificial Intuition?