The argument for near-term human disempowerment through AI

AI & Society, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 14, 2024

Abstract Many researchers and intellectuals warn about extreme risks from artificial intelligence. However, these warnings typically came without systematic arguments in support. This paper provides an argument that AI will lead to the permanent disempowerment of humanity, e.g. human extinction, by 2100. It rests on four substantive premises which it motivates defends: first, speed advances capability, as well capability level current systems have already reached, suggest is practically possible build capable disempowering humanity Second, due incentives coordination problems, if such AI, be built. Third, since appears a hard technical problem aligned with goals its designers, many actors might powerful misaligned Fourth, because useful for large range goals, try disempower humanity. If tries 2100, then disempowered conclusion has immense moral prudential significance.

Язык: Английский

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Home as mind: AI extenders and affective ecologies in dementia care

Synthese, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 205(2)

Опубликована: Фев. 3, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Interrogating artificial agency

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15

Опубликована: Янв. 17, 2025

Can artificial systems act? In the literature we find two camps: sceptics and believers. But issue of whether can act and, if so, how, has not been systematically discussed. This is a foundational question for philosophy AI. I sketch methodological approach to investigating agency from architectural behavioural perspectives.

Язык: Английский

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Becoming oneself online: Social media platforms as environments for self-transformation

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 17, 2025

Язык: Английский

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William Fontaine’s (Forgotten) Kantian Analysis of Ernest Everett Just’s Mathematical Biology

International Journal of Philosophy, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(1), С. 24 - 38

Опубликована: Фев. 17, 2025

The African-American philosopher William Fontaine (1909-1968) inaugurated a neo-Kantian philosophical analysis of the original biological theories fellow Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941), and his thesis regarding “space-time” structure systems deserves our renewed consideration today. First comparing Just’s methodology in 1939 text <i>Biology Cell Surface</i> to Immanuel Kant’s <i>Critique Pure Reason</i> (1781/1787), then suggested parallel reading irreducible theory cellular Samuel Alexander’s (1859-1938) Gifford Lectures 1920 on metaphysical possibility non-Euclidean or multidimensional space-time — Along these lines, had written life’s constituents, because “assembled both space time, its investigation is limited”. Since Kant was well-known also later criticized for logical commitments three-dimensional Euclidean space-time, it clear that Fontaine’s statements departed from traditional Kantian philosophy. However, since emphasized whole-part relation living organisms as well distinction between reductionistic mechanism emergent views expounded charted new route bringing philosophy into context contemporary higher-dimensional space-time. This paper first reviews contributions biology commentary upon them, considers current scientific basis geometries sciences.

Язык: Английский

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AI as Agency without Intelligence: On Artificial Intelligence as a New Form of Artificial Agency and the Multiple Realisability of Agency Thesis

Philosophy & Technology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 38(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 27, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Evaluating approaches for reducing catastrophic risks from AI

AI and Ethics, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 8, 2024

Abstract According to a growing number of researchers, AI may pose catastrophic – or even existential risks humanity. Catastrophic be taken 100 million human deaths, similarly bad outcome. I argue that such while contested are sufficiently likely demand rigorous discussion potential societal responses. Subsequently, propose four desiderata for approaches the reduction from AI. The quality can assessed by their chance success, degree beneficence, non-maleficence, and beneficent side effects. Then, employ these evaluate promises, limitations alignment research, timelines policy halting slowing down compute governance tackling risks. While more research is needed, this investigation shows several dealing with available, where respective strengths weaknesses lie. It turns out many complementary have nuanced relationship present harms. some useful addressing harms, not always case.

Язык: Английский

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Is superintelligence necessarily moral?

Analysis, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Сен. 24, 2024

Abstract Numerous authors have expressed concern that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential risk to humanity. These argue we might build AI which is vastly intellectually superior humans (a ‘superintelligence’), and optimizes for goals strike us as morally bad, or even irrational. Thus this argument assumes a superintelligence bad goals. However, according some views, necessarily has adequate This be the case either because abilities moral reasoning mutually depend on each other, realism internalism are true. I former misconstrues view independent, latter misunderstands implications of internalism. Moreover, current state research provides additional reasons think could

Язык: Английский

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The agency in language agents

Inquiry, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 21

Опубликована: Дек. 16, 2024

Язык: Английский

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