Artificial Intelligence and Christian Culture
‘Artificial intelligence’ is a misnomer, a natural scientist admonished me at a recent summer symposium by Lake Garda in sunny Italy. Instead, I should have said ‘artificial neural networks.’ Presumably his reason for this fraternal correction was that machines do not possess real intelligence as humans do. Variants on this argument percolate on the web proclaiming that AI systems are merely advanced calculators or the equivalent of an enormous army of monkeys ferociously hitting typewriter keys and eventually producing something meaningful. At the same time, the Bah Humbugs of the sceptics are contraposed by the metaphysical promises of others proclaiming the imminent singularity: the arrival of conscious, self-aware, super intelligent and autonomous AI systems taking over the world. Often this comes, as in most books and films treating the topic, with apocalyptic fears of the not-so-far-away destruction of humanity; whilst in real life Hollywood, where movie companies regularly produce such fantasies, the more mundane fear of unemployment dominates: a future in which the robots on their own produce both the epics of their triumph and the accompanying soothing pieces of entertainment for the lesser species.
For Christian thinkers, crucial philosophical and theological concerns revolve around whether AI systems should ever be considered persons, classically defined by Boethius as individual substances of a rational nature.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/artificial-intelligence-and-christian-culture/
For Christian thinkers, crucial philosophical and theological concerns revolve around whether AI systems should ever be considered persons, classically defined by Boethius as individual substances of a rational nature.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/artificial-intelligence-and-christian-culture/
Publisert i European Conservative , 2023
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