Volume 79 (2024), 5
Original Articles - Generative AI
(Original title: Bridges Without Foundation? Why the Use of AI Tools in Academia Needs to Build on Ethics First)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 5, 486 - 500.Abstract
The paper makes the case for establishing ethically substantiated foundations for using AI tools before turning to more detailed issues. First, I point out AI tools’ potential benefits in academia. Second, I discuss the risks of missing out on building ethically substantiated foundations by shifting the focus too much on specific questions. To illustrate this risk, I… Read more
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(Original title: Can and Should Language Models Act Politically? Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Action in Comparison with Generative AI)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 5, 501 - 513.Abstract
At the heart of the debate about generative or autonomous AI is the concern that it could take action away from humans. Hannah Arendt, who gave the concept of action a political profile and opposed the automation tendencies of modernity, provides a basis for assessing fears that humans will cede their political action to AI. After an introduction to Arendt’s… Read more
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(Original title: AI Text Generators and the Truth Paradigm: Considerations from a Phenomenological Perspective)
Filozofia, 79 (2024), 5, 514 - 528.Abstract
NLP has opened a new level for artificial intelligence: the truth. But AI text generators do not tell the truth reliably. That creates the contradiction of a truth-seeking authority saying something untrue. The paradigm of truth seems to be under attack. The threat of accepting AI as having the ability to speak truth pushes a model to a stereotype of truth that… Read more
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