“AI Virtue: Generativity and Epistemic Value,” Santa Fe Institute workshop on “The New New Science,” Santa Fe, NM, 16 September 2025.

  • Abstract: In the age of AI, what will be “good” knowledge? This talk maps epistemic virtues (like “true,” “accurate,” “creative”) used to discuss AI in a corpus of 553 journal articles on AI published in 2024. “Creativity” comes in for special attention as an example. The goal is to theorize how a more integrated framework might be developed for evaluating the worth of AI—one less locked into understandings of value adapted to pre-AI agents and structures of knowledge work. The talk is accompanied by a digital kit for exploring data models of discourse on AI.