This book discusses major issues of the current AI debate from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and the social sciences: Can AI have a consciousness? Is superintelligence possible and probable? How does AI change individual and social life? Can there be artificial persons? What influence does AI have on religious worldviews? In Western societies, we are surrounded by artificially intelligent systems. Most of these systems are embedded in online platforms. But embodiments of AI, be it by voice or by actual physical embodiment, give artificially intelligent systems another dimension in terms of their impact on how we perceive these systems, how they shape our communication with them and with fellow humans and how we live and work together. AI in any form gives a new twist to the big questions that humanity has concerned herself with for centuries: What is consciousness? How should we treat each other - what is right and what is wrong? How do our creations change the world we are living in? Which challenges do we have to face in the future?
Author(s): Benedikt Paul Goecke (editor), Astrid Marieke Rosenthal-Von Der Pütten (editor)
Publisher: Brill Mentis
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 424
Table of Contents
1. Introduction • Benedikt Paul Göcke, Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten
Part I: Consciousness
2. Conscious, Thinking, and Intelligent Machines? Some Clarifying Remarks in the Field of Articial Intelligence • Tobias Müller
3. Deus Malignus – The Digital Rehabilitation of Deception • Walther Ch. Zimmerli
4. Artificial Intelligence of the Human Mind. Finding Common Ground between Intelligent Machines and “mechanistic” Minds • Daniel Neumann
5. When Robots (pretend to) Think • Davide Ghiglino, Agnieszka Wykowska
6. Revisiting the Dancing-Qualia Argument for Computationalism • Stefan Reining
Part II: Superintelligence
7. Will Superintelligence Take Over? A Critical Reflection on the Apparent and Actual Dangers of Artificial Intelligence • Kilian Karger
8. Why Artificial Intelligence is a Matter of Design • Andreas Theodorou
9. Between Epistemic Progress and Existential Risk Minimization • Julia Alessandra Harzheim
Part III: Ethics
10. Current Challenges in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence or: Old Wine in New Bottles • Leonie Seng
11. Is Utilitarianism Entirely Useless for Self-Driving Car Ethics? A Critical Reflection on the Rationale for Rule Utilitarianism • Vanessa Schäffner
12. The Car’s Choice: Illusions of Agency in the Self-Driving Car Trolley Problem • Rebecca Davnall
13. Why Machines That Talk Still Do Not Think, and Why They Might Nevertheless be Able to Solve Moral Problems • Lukas Brand
Part IV: Robots
14. Could Artificial General Intelligence be an End-In-Itself? • Benedikt Paul Göcke
15. Can Robots Have Dignity? • Carmen Krämer
16. The Right(s) Question: Can and Should Robots Have Rights? • David J. Gunkel
17. Image, Servitude, Partnership: What Do the Creation of Human Beings and the Creation of AI Imply? • Gábor L. Ambrus
18. From Experiential to Existential Questions – An Interdisciplinary View on Social Robots in Religious Settings • Diana Löffler, Swantje Luthe, Jörn Hurtienne, Ilona Nord
19. Robots and the Complexity of Everyday Worlds • Andreas Bischof, Arne Maibaum
20. Taught by Technology. Assessing Robots’ Social Roles in Early Childhood Education • Scarlet Siebert
Part V: Society
21. Artificial Intelligence and Polygenic Scoring. The Risk of Personal Eugenics • Johannes Grössl
22. Could Machines Replace Human Scientists? Digitalization and Scientific Discoveries • Jan G. Michel
23. Organizational and Societal Implications of the Adoption of Machine Invention Systems • Dragos-Cristian Vasilescu, Michael Filzmoser
About the Authors
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