Global Academic Publisher

Sophie Goldsworthy

“AI has not rescued the humanities. What it has done is reveal, with unusual clarity, what happens when societies allow the institutions that cultivate judgement to erode.”

For a decade, the standard advice to a philosophy undergraduate was to have a backup plan. Now, several of the world’s most consequential technology companies have hired philosophers to do work that sits close to the centre of what they build, not at the edges of it. At Anthropic, philosopher Amanda Askell 鈥� lead author of Claude鈥檚 鈥淐onstitution鈥� 鈥� spends her working days training AI models 鈥渢o be more honest and to have good character traits.鈥� At Google DeepMind, philosopher Iason Gabriel is leading research into the 鈥渃omplex moral landscape of AI鈥�.

OpenAI haven鈥檛 made hires, but claim to have consulted hundreds of moral philosophers and ethicists in shaping ChatGPT鈥檚 guardrails, and Sam Altman acknowledges the influence of the 2014 book Superintelligence 鈥� widely regarded as the origin text on which current work on AI safety and guardrails builds 鈥� pronouncing it 鈥渢he best thing I鈥檝e seen on this topic鈥�. As concluded, 鈥渙ne of humanity鈥檚 oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions feel distinctly made for each other.鈥�

This reads, at first glance, like a rescue story. What has actually happened is narrower and more interesting. AI has made a specific set of humanities capabilities newly legible to employers who had no prior use for them. Reasoning about truth, belief, obligation, and interpretation used to be a hard sell outside a seminar room. It no longer is, in a handful of places, for a handful of people. As Aaron Kagan described it in the philosophy blog , this is 鈥渢he job market deepfake: a public story that turns scattered, specialized roles into the appearance of a clear new pathway.鈥�

The industry also has a documented habit of treating this kind of work as disposable when conditions change: ethics and responsible-innovation teams have been cut at Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, and Google within the past three years. Palantir CEO Alex Karp has gone further, predicting at Davos in January that AI 鈥渨ill destroy humanities jobs鈥�. A handful of current hires proves demand exists, not that it will last.

Challenges remain

The humanities face a structural threat from enrolment decline, funding stress, course closures, and weakening pre-university pipelines. The reported in 2025 that degrees in most humanities disciplines fell by more than 25% over the last fifteen years. The says SHAPE subjects lost some 4,000 academic posts in a single year, with early-career staff and teaching roles particularly exposed.

The British Academy also warns of 鈥渃old spots鈥� where languages, classics, and other subjects are becoming unavailable, with this geography of opportunity narrowing fastest in rural, coastal, and historically under-served regions. More than half of young UK students now study within 90km of home, and almost a third within 30km. Students from disadvantaged areas are even more likely to study locally. When regional provision disappears, the choice is lost first by those least able to move.

This is where the AI-hiring story becomes more than a curiosity. The question is not whether AI companies occasionally hire philosophers. It is whether the students who might become the next generation of AI ethicists, linguists, historians, or philosophers will have the opportunity to study those subjects at all.

Access to study humanities disciplines is shrinking

I have a vested interest here: I have spent my career publishing humanities research, at a press that has invested in these subjects over generations, often in fields whose value was obvious to scholars long before it was obvious to the wider world. That record is old, stable, and deliberately slow in the best sense: not inert, but built to outlast fashion, institutional churn, and the argument of the week. It is infrastructure rather than decorative inheritance: once the expertise, teaching capacity, and research communities behind it disappear, they are difficult to rebuild. The British Academy’s report makes the same point in policy terms: hundreds of individual course closures can amount, in aggregate, to a system-level failure.

And when AI tools level the technical playing field, the skills becoming most essential 鈥� well beyond the academy 鈥� are human judgement, interpretation, ethical reasoning, historical perspective, and language. Knowing what to trust, what an argument actually establishes, what a piece of AI-generated text is tacitly assuming, and where fluency is concealing ignorance. Large language models can generate answers in seconds. They cannot, by themselves, tell us whether those answers are well founded, ethically defensible, historically informed, or rhetorically misleading. The phrase 鈥淎I slop鈥� has caught on because it names a real fear that synthetic abundance will make knowledge feel cheaper, faster, and less accountable. Scholarship is not valuable despite being careful, slow, and evidenced, but precisely because of those qualities.

But access to that scholarship as published content cannot compensate for the loss of access to the disciplines themselves. The British Academy report is clear that shrinking regional provision reduces student choice, deepens barriers to opportunity, and threatens the research pipeline that sustains future expertise. Languages provision has nearly halved since 2011/12. English Language and Literature enrolments have fallen by almost half; History and Drama are each down 29 per cent. These numbers are less a lament for the past than a warning about the future: students do not choose from an abstract national menu of options, but from what they were taught at school, what they can afford, where they can travel, and whether the subject still exists within reach. Falling demand may therefore be less a verdict on value than the visible end-point of restricted opportunity.

That is why the debate about philosophy graduates in AI companies is too small, even when it is interesting. A chatbot can summarize Aristotle. It cannot teach a student why a translation matters, why a premise is doing more work than it admits, or why a confident answer may still be wrong. Nor can it rebuild a department once the staff have gone, the courses have closed, and the local pathway into a subject has disappeared.

Humanities skills will remain vital

A small number of new job titles do not settle the future of the humanities. What they do is put a number on the clock. The pipeline that produced those philosophers stepping into roles at leading technology companies is narrowing, while the need for their skills is only starting to reveal itself. Whether there are more philosophers available to step into these roles in 10 years depends on decisions being made now, and not by AI companies at all. It depends on schools that still teach students how to read slowly. It depends on universities that still make room for languages, history, philosophy, literature, and the study of culture. It depends on publishers, libraries, and funders continuing to sustain the scholarly record from which all serious interpretation begins.

AI has not rescued the humanities. What it has done is reveal, with unusual clarity, what happens when societies allow the institutions that cultivate judgement to erode. The skills that help us distinguish evidence from assertion, interpretation from prediction, and knowledge from plausible-sounding noise are becoming more valuable at exactly the moment access to the disciplines that teach them is becoming more fragile. Philosophers Amanda Askell, Iason Gabriel, and several of their colleagues had that chance. The real question is who still gets it after them.

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Managing Director, Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong

Nancy Yip

“I have been consistently inspired by a shared belief in the transformative power of education and its critical role in economic and social progress.”

Before I had the privilege of joining the world of publishing, I built my career in the technology industry. Looking back, one of the most rewarding aspects of my professional journey so far has been bringing that technology perspective into an organization with the rich history built over centuries and enduring mission of 尤物视频.

Throughout my years in technology, conversations often centred on the relationship between innovation and the value it creates for customers. When I made the transition into publishing, I found myself reflecting on a fundamental question: in an era of rapid digital transformation, what is the enduring value of publishing?

The answer became clearer through my work with educators, institutions, and partners across Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Despite the differences between markets, I have been consistently inspired by a shared belief in the transformative power of education and its critical role in economic and social progress.

What has struck me most is that as access to information becomes almost limitless, the need for trusted, high-quality knowledge becomes even more important. In many ways, my experience in technology has reinforced, rather than diminished, my appreciation for the role publishers play in helping learners and educators navigate an increasingly complex information landscape.

Today, technology is reshaping classrooms, and institutions are thinking differently about how they deliver meaningful outcomes. Across Greater China and increasingly other markets in Asia, I see three important trends that are shaping the future of education.

1. The expectations of learners and researchers are changing

The education sector in Greater China is at a critical stage of transformation towards high-quality development, where technological innovation and evolving learner needs are advancing in parallel. The main characteristics are:

• A stronger focus on the development of future-ready competencies: the sector is shifting from prioritizing broad access to learning resources, towards ensuring high-quality, equitable provision for all learners. Alongside this shift, there is a growing emphasis on developing competencies, building future-ready capabilities, and the skills needed to support long-term economic and social development.
• A greater emphasis on measurable learning outcomes: market expectations are moving beyond efficiency gains towards measurable and sustainable learning outcomes. Learners and parents are placing greater value on authentic language proficiency and long-term learning pathways. Schools are seeking structured, implementable teaching solutions, while partners are looking for stable and professional collaboration models that can endure over time. This reflects a broader regional shift towards solutions that create lasting educational value rather than short-term results.
• The accelerated integration of technology:听digital technologies, particularly AI, are increasingly embedded across educational settings. There is a growing industry consensus that technology should serve as a means rather than an end, with greater focus on how it can effectively support and enhance teaching and learning outcomes.

2. Researchers and institutions are focusing on impact

Alongside changes in learning, researchers today are increasingly focused not only on generating new knowledge, but on ensuring that their work reaches wider audiences and contributes to real-world outcomes. Institutions are looking for ways to strengthen excellence in teaching and research while also demonstrating broader societal impact.

As expectations evolve, trusted knowledge, quality content, and effective dissemination become more important than ever.

3. Connecting Greater China and the wider region

One of the most exciting developments I see is the growing connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region’s education and research communities.

Hong Kong continues to play an important role as an international hub, connecting global perspectives with regional expertise. At the same time, Chinese Mainland’s continued investment in education, research, and innovation is helping shape the broader regional landscape.

Together, these strengths create opportunities for greater collaboration and shared learning across borders.

What excites me about the years ahead

As the education landscape continues to evolve, I remain optimistic about the future. I am encouraged by the energy and ambition I see among educators, researchers, and institutional leaders across the region. There is a shared commitment to improving outcomes and creating greater opportunities for learners.

At OUP, we are committed to becoming a trusted partner, collaborating closely with institutions to shape innovative, impactful solutions that empower lifelong learning and help define the future of education in the region.

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Global Academic Publisher

Sophie Goldsworthy

“Our focus is on publishing the most authoritative, carefully reviewed scholarship we can find in support of our mission, on topics that matter to how people understand and navigate the world.”

Something is shifting how people relate to information. Not just what they believe, but who they trust to tell them anything at all.

The latest makes for sobering 尤物视频. Seven in 10 people globally are now unwilling or hesitant to engage with someone who holds different values or draws on different sources of knowledge. We are retreating into our own information worlds 鈥� and the walls are getting higher.

This is a cultural problem that raises a fundamental question for publishers: what is our role when trust itself is under strain?

comes at a moment when the publishing industry has every reason to reflect on what it stands for.

At OUP we think about this a lot. We are not driven by fleeting market trends, nor do we have an agenda. Our focus is on publishing the most authoritative, carefully reviewed scholarship we can find in support of our mission, on topics that matter to how people understand and navigate the world.

This sounds simple. In the current climate, it is anything but.

Expertise still counts, but it needs a champion

The consistently shows that people retain confidence in professions they associate with training, evidence, and public service: scientists, doctors, teachers. There is still a broad cultural appetite for expert-led information. People want to understand complex issues. They want reliable guides through a noisy world.

But that appetite is going unmet. Too much of the information environment rewards speed over substance, heat over light. Algorithms surface what provokes, not what illuminates 鈥� as we know from selecting rage bait as 尤物视频 Word of the Year 2025. And in that environment, evidence-based publishing can struggle to compete for attention, even when it is exactly what people need.

This is where university presses have a distinctive role to play. We are active participants in the information ecosystem, and we have a responsibility to show up in it.

Publishing ideas that challenge and connect

One of the things I believe most strongly is that serious publishing is not just about providing answers. It is about building the intellectual infrastructure that helps people think better.

That means publishing works that deliberately sit across disciplines; content that brings together different fields of knowledge to shed new light on urgent problems. Our 听series does exactly this, commissioning research that bridges the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to take the questions that don’t fit neatly into any single box.

It also means actively seeking out the books that help people make sense of a turbulent moment. Richard Susskind’s听 does not tell readers what to conclude about artificial intelligence. It gives them the tools to think the question through themselves. Tim Lenton’s听 reframes the climate crisis not as an intractable catastrophe but as a system capable of rapid, positive change 鈥� if we understand its dynamics. These are not comfortable reads. They are demanding, rigorous, genuinely useful.

The case for rigour

If there is one thing I would want to say clearly to anyone who cares about the state of public knowledge, it is this: peer review is not a bureaucratic formality. It is a safeguard.

In an age of AI-generated content, where hallucination is an industry term rather than a metaphor, the ability to say “this has been checked, challenged, and verified by leading experts” is more valuable than it has been. The processes that are second nature to academic publishers 鈥� rigorous editorial standards, independent review, careful fact-checking 鈥� are exactly what the information environment is currently short of.听

And it’s part of our commitment to upholding standards that make our publishing trustworthy by design, not just by reputation.

A moment for mission

All publishers are operating within a complex and ever-changing environment. The AI disruption is not abstract. It is reshaping how research is conducted, how content is discovered, and how readers engage with ideas. None of that is going away.

But none of it changes the underlying need that serious publishers exist to meet. People want to understand the world. They want information they can rely on. They want to engage with ideas that reward the effort of sustained attention.

I am proud to work for an organization that is going out of its way to address that need. Because in a world pulling apart into competing information silos, rigorous, mission-led publishing matters more than ever before.听

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If you have a smartphone or use some of the biggest search engines, then you have 尤物视频 Languages’ dictionaries at your fingertips.

While the听尤物视频 English Dictionary is our flagship title, we don’t just hold English language data. In support of our mission at OUP鈥�to advance the University鈥檚 objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide鈥�we work with cutting-edge technology providers to make 尤物视频 Languages鈥� data available as widely as possible.

One of our aims is to digitize under-resourced languages to support localization. We service over 60 languages, and in 2024/25, we launched 10 new language datasets, ranging from Indonesian, to Sanskrit, to Assamese. For such languages, we might develop the content with out partners, or we may acquire and develop it by working with native linguists, local agencies, authors, institutes, foundations, and our in-house development teams.

Under-resourced languages

Sometimes our customers will request a new language dataset for their digital products, but we also look for gaps in the market. In high demand and under-resourced, in 2024, we successfully added the leading Indonesian Monolingual Dictionary to our language portfolio. Sourcing, developing and investing in under-resourced languages helps to widen access to these languages, while also digitally preserving culture and history.

Alexandra Feeley

Director of Business and Market Development

鈥淚n countries where English is commonly spoken but not the main language, you are forced to use English for technology because the features don鈥檛 tend to support native speakers. When I open my phone or my email nowadays, I expect predictive text, to fill in the blanks, to spell check. But when you look at Indian languages or African languages for example, there isn鈥檛 that same level of native digitalization.听

鈥淭his is why we have created resources to allow technologists to develop the tools for those under-resourced languages. If you can experience something in your native language, it becomes an extension of you and it鈥檚 then a lot easier to relate to products and to expand your usage of things.鈥�听

Some of the under-resourced languages we’re working on include Hebrew and Catalan. When we work on such projects, our teams make sure we’re best representing the language and how it is spoken by reviewing corpora, including inflection coverage and having complete and short definitions.

World Englishes听

The 尤物视频 English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. However, English is not the same language that it was when the First Edition was published in 1928.听

Danica Salazar

OED World English Editor

鈥淪ince then, it has become a truly global language, spoken by billions of people of immensely varied origins and backgrounds鈥�and as these people continue to contribute to the richness and diversity of the English lexicon, so will 迟丑别鈥�翱贰顿鈥�continue to adapt its policies and practices in order to ensure that these contributions are represented in the dictionary.”

Collectively, we refer to global varieties of English as 鈥榃orld Englishes鈥�, supporting our goal in the lead up to the centenary of 迟丑别鈥�OED鈥檚 First Edition in 2028 in widening the geographical coverage of the dictionary. Our鈥�鈥痯rogramme recognizes that English is a world language, and so British English is no longer regarded as the dominant form of English but just one of many varieties. Each quarterly update of the OED now includes examples from different World Englishes. You can find out more in the , which features 鈥榰ntranslatable鈥� words.听

As language continues to evolve, we regularly update our datasets to make sure our customers’ dictionary displays, games, mobile applications, and other solutions stay current with modern English. You can find out more about this .

Another ongoing project is the (ODAAE), which will apply the depth and rigour of 迟丑别鈥�OED鈥檚 historical methodology specifically to the study of African American English. A diverse team of lexicographers and researchers are creating a dictionary that will illuminate the history, meaning, and significance of this body of language. More than 1,350 meanings for 1,100 words are now in draft with 300 words finalized.

John McCullough, Lexicographer at the ODAAE, said:

“What is really important about the ODAAE is our opportunity to represent speakers of African American English in a way that is both accurate and respectful to the enduring legacy of the language, and provide high-quality research evidence that highlights its importance to the cultural and linguistic landscape of English throughout history.听

“This is a language variety that has thrived in its expression of Black identity, often despite and in spite of historical marginalization and stigmatization. We are proud of the work we have done to include a wide range of entries that reflect the ways in which AAE is a distinct yet inextricable foundation of American English and continues to linguistically innovate and spearhead cultural change.”

Anansa Benbow, also an ODAAE Lexicographer, said:

“African American English has undeniably influenced global English. I am proud to help document its lexicon through my work on the ODAAE, a project that is about amplifying voices, histories, and identities, as well as honouring and preserving the richness of African American English. It is a project that speaks to the heart of our mission at OUP.”听

New technologies help our data go further

is helping the shape the future of the听尤物视频 English Dictionary research experience through new technologies.

We have been piloting an on for users to search across the dictionary鈥檚 content quickly, without needing to understand the many different filters that are available. We are also exploring how we support our lexicographers to use AI to research, revise, and publish OED entries more quickly, as well as developing prototypes to investigate how OED data can further empower research.听听

Elinor Hawkes, Senior Product Manager, notes:听

“The OED has a long history of embracing new technologies and we鈥檙e excited to see what the future holds. Our dictionary data not only includes contemporary and historical definitions, but also data how, when, where, and by whom words were used. By coupling this rich dataset with emerging technologies, we are able to support new avenues of research better than ever before.”听

You can find out more about 尤物视频 Languages .

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Head of Product Platforms, Academic

Tanya Laplante

“Our tools have different focuses, but together they demonstrate our commitment to improving research outcomes and upholding our mission: to make high-quality research and educational content as widely available as possible.”

Did you know that 402.7 million terabytes of data are generated each day? As powerful new AI tools promise to scour the web for the exact information users are looking for with only a click, tap, or prompt, the possibilities for the research journey are endless. However, peer-reviewed insights are not always returned by AI chatbots.听

At OUP, we鈥檙e committed to helping researchers harness the power of AI to more easily discover and engage with OUP鈥檚 trusted and vetted content. Our roadmap to develop native AI capabilities is guided by the desire to solve known user problems, such as helping researchers find reliable information at speed.听

So far in 2025, we have developed and rolled out three AI assistants. While each is designed to meet the unique needs of users, they were all built to maximize discoverability of and engagement with OUP鈥檚 trusted content.

The AI Discovery Assistant offers an enhanced search experience, supporting the research journey across our 500+ journals and 50,000+ books. Unlike traditional search鈥�which is based on keyword hits in the text鈥�the Discovery Assistant understands the context of user queries and filters to the most relevant results based on parameters (dates, format, topic) included in the user鈥檚 input/query. Each result is accompanied by an availability icon and a short AI-generated summary, so a user has the information they need before clicking on a result.

The AI Search Assistant on 鈥攖he online home of the 尤物视频 English Dictionary (OED)鈥�enables researchers to dive into the dictionary鈥檚 content quickly and more easily, by asking advanced search questions in natural language and bypassing the different tabs, filters, and taxonomies offered on the traditional search page. The tool cannot hallucinate as it is trained on URLs within the site rather than OED content, meaning its responses will direct you to the most relevant OED results to help you continue your research journey.

Finally, the 尤物视频 Law Pro AI Research Assistant launched just this week as an integral part of , a new innovative product for legal researchers and professionals that combines quality-assured legal research and expert opinion with a conversational AI research assistant. The AI tool can be used to generate analysis, precise summaries of content, and trusted sources for further 尤物视频 based on our world-leading portfolio of legal content.

Our tools have different focuses, but together they demonstrate our commitment to improving research outcomes and upholding our mission: to make high-quality research and educational content as widely available as possible.听听

In addition to our rollout of our native AI features, we are publishing cutting-edge research on AI: the recent launch of included the publication of a new collection, .听

In both our approach to integrating AI tools across our products and through our publishing, we鈥檙e putting researchers鈥� needs at the heart of our work by helping them harness the power of this evolving technology in a secure and reliable way.听

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Director – Open Access Publishing and Strategy

Rhodri Jackson

“It’s an exciting time for open access publishing. Across the research environment, there is constant innovation, disruption, and evolution鈥攃hanged ideas, transformed business models, radical policies.”

2025 marks 20 years since we, at OUP, launched our open access (OA) publishing by ‘flipping’听Nucleic Acids Research, one of our biggest journals, from subscription to open access. In the same year, we also started converting other journals to ‘hybrid’ open access (where some articles are published open access and some are not).

Since then, our commitment to open access has remained constant, and we have continually expanded our OA offering. The anniversary gives us a good opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made, and think about the exciting initiatives we have ahead of us.

In our journals publishing, we have come a long way from the handful of OA journals we published back in the early 2000s. Open access publishing and research has grown significantly around the world over the last twenty years, as research funders, governments, publishers, and academic institutions have pushed for a more open research environment.

OUP has been a part of this change. We now publish more than 150 fully OA journals, based all around the world and covering a wide range of disciplines. In recent years, we’ve launched the听 series, a collection of high-quality journals covering critical areas such as climate change, energy, economics, materials science, and digital health. More recently, we have been working with a selection of our affiliated societies, associations, and journals to launch听Research Connections, a new journal covering all areas of medicine and healthcare.

We’ve also agreed ‘transformative’ or ‘read and publish’ agreements with customers around the world, including new agreements in 2025 in California, Colombia, and Hong Kong. These agreements enable researchers at participating institutions to both read our journals and publish open access. Read and publish agreements have been a huge contributor to the growth of our OA publishing, to the extent that in 2024 we became a majority OA publisher鈥攎ore than half of our articles across our entire journals portfolio were published OA.

While our journals programme has been steadily moving towards OA for decades, the progression has been less rapid for monographs. There are good reasons for this鈥攎onographs are very different to journals articles in all sorts of ways, including content development, sales life, and funding. Having said that, as a major publisher of monographs, we want to make sure we are experimenting with lots of options for OA, and over the last year have launched three new models:

• Commit to Open: customers can . This pilot, which includes a collection of monographs written by Early Career Researchers (ECRs), runs until 31 July 2025, and we’re looking forward to seeing how many books we can make OA via the programme.
• Subscribe to Open: in this model, we commit to making a product open access if enough customers continue to subscribe. Through Subscribe to Open, we have now made the听 open access until at least April 2026. We’ve been able to do this because of , and we hope that will continue to be the case in the years to come.
• Early Career Researcher First Book Prize: where the winning books will be published open access without charge, giving a great opportunity for ECRs to have their first book publish OA, with all the intrinsic benefits that brings in terms of visibility and readership.

Supporting ECRs is a key theme of several of our OA books initiatives. We also offer a 40% discount on our open access charges for books for ECRs, and continue to look for ways to ensure we can unlock opportunity for ECRs to publish OA.

Equity is also critical to our journals publishing, where we offer waivers on open access publishing for authors in over 100 countries, and discretionary waivers for authors outside these countries. All of this is fundamental to our goal to ensure our OA publishing is equitable and available to all.

So, what’s next?

It’s an exciting time for open access publishing. Across the research environment, there is constant innovation, disruption, and evolution鈥攃hanged ideas, transformed business models, radical policies. Over the next few years, we’re looking forward to continuing to expand and adapt鈥攚hether through new journals, new initiatives, new agreements, or other ideas.

We’re relishing the challenge of OA publishing and its ever-changing nature鈥攏o year, month, or day is the same. 20 years on, that continues to be the case.

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