Instrumentality vs Awareness Rethinking the reverse side of AI

The concept of Singularity envisages a technology-driven explosion in intelligence. This paper argues that the resulting superhuman intelligence will not be centralized in a single AI system, but distributed across all people and artifacts, as connected via the Internet. This global brain will function to tackle all challenges confronting the "global superorganism". Its capabilities will extend so far beyond our present abilities that they can perhaps best be conveyed as a pragmatic version of the "divine" attributes: omniscience (knowing everything needed to solve our problems), omnipresence (being available anywhere anytime), omnipotence (being able to provide any product or service in the most efficient way) and omnibenevolence (aiming at the greatest happiness for the greatest number). By extrapolating present trends, technologies and processes, the paper shows how these abilities may be realized within the next few decades. The resulting solution to all our individual and societal problems can be conceived as a return to "Eden", the state of abundance and peace that supposedly existed before civilization. In such a utopian society, individuals would be supported and challenged by the global brain to maximally develop their abilities, and to continuously create new knowledge. However, side effects of technological innovation are likely to create serious disturbances on the road to this idyllic state. The most important dangers are cascading failures facilitated by hyperconnectivity, the spread of psychological parasites that make people lose touch with reality, the loss of human abilities caused by an unnatural, passive lifestyle, and a conservative backlash triggered by too rapid changes. Because of the non-linearity of the system, the precise impact of such disturbances cannot be predicted. However, a range of precautionary measures, including a "global immune system", may preempt the greatest risks. The Singularity It has been observed at least since the 1960s that technological advances seem to arrive ever more quickly. This forces upon us profound changes in our psychology, lifestyle and society (

This article deals with impact of internet and technology on human-beings. Hypothetically, it aims to show how we are leading towards an age in which machines will take the control. It is hoped that its unconventional presentation, meditative nature and predictions will motivate readers to research further on this issue. It surveys briefly the history of development and progress of humans. Very miserly, it describes the human journey from ancient age to the age of artificial intelligence. "Today, the world is in the midst of an extraordinary over pouring of scientific work on the mind and brain, on the processes of thinking and learning, on

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the latest advancements in Information Technology (IT) have drastically altered our view of the world. With the ability to process and analyze vast amounts of data in real-time, AI has revolutionized several industries, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. For instance, AI-powered medical devices can assist doctors in making diagnoses and predicting patient outcomes more accurately, while also helping them identify early warning signs of diseases. Furthermore, the rise of Machine Learning (ML) has enabled organizations to leverage predictive analytics to gain valuable insights into consumer behavior and market trends. For example, online retailers such as Amazon use AI algorithms to personalize product recommendations based on a customer's browsing and purchase history. In this way, AI-powered systems are able to offer customized experiences and improve overall customer satisfaction. A key challenge on that is the potential impact of AI on human consciousness and perception. As AI systems become more advanced and more integrated into our daily lives, there is a risk that they may alter our perception of the world and our understanding of reality. This raises important questions about the ethical implications of AI and the need to ensure that AI systems are designed and used in a responsible and ethical manner. A shift in a new revolutionary science such as AI and applications such as chatGPT is telling us again that man is not at the center of the universe as an intelligent being. The ideal model of the "Cartesian Man" embodied the basic tenets of Renaissance humanism, which considered man the centre of the universe, limitless in his capacities for development, led to the notion that men should try to embrace all knowledge and develop their own capacities as fully as possible, unfortunately it seems that AI is replacing those limitless capacities! My question is whether AI as a potentially transformative technology that has the potential to enhance our understanding of the world and ourselves.

Sabah Ülkesi, 2019

The article analyzes the emergence of Artificial intelligence and the phantasms that it provokes from a historical, literary, and philosophical perspective. It begins with Heidegger's critical understanding of information theory and how this leads up to Hubert Dreyfus's work in What Computers Can't Do and his critique of strong AI. These earlier debates are then connected to current concerns with super-intelligence and so called singularity theory, in Bostrom and others. It argues against taking seriously the much debated notion of "singularity", which it instead displays as a phantasy arising from within the perverse core of the technological imagination. The text was commissioned by the Turkish cultural Journal Sabah Ülkesi, 58 (2019), where it was published in a Turkish translation.

2022

In this article, I argue that the development of AI in terms of successful agency without intelligence does not lead to any fanciful realisation of science fiction scenarios (Singularity), which are at best distracting and at worst irresponsible; and that any denial of AI as a revolution in how we create, control, and conceptualise agency is also wrong. The article concludes by highlighting how this calls for ethical foresight and design of the kind of infosphere and information societies we would like to develop.

Neural Network World

BEIJING FORUM , 2024

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) signals more than a fourth industrial revolution; it marks a potential rupture-a profound shift reshaping societies, frameworks, and human paradigms. Once merely an emerging tool, AI now permeates every domain, from governance to healthcare, transforming daily life and sparking urgent ethical debates. Amid this technological surge, uncertainty reigns: will AI remain an extension of human capability, or might it challenge and redefine human autonomy and purpose? This paper navigates the spectrum of perspectives on AI's role in modernity, exploring whether it heralds a new civilization where algorithms not only serve but also shape human destiny. By critically examining these viewpoints, we seek to understand AI's potential to uplift or undermine core aspects of civilization-our values, governance, and shared future.

Long Distance Christian, 2018

This booklet dispels some of the sensationalism around Artificial Intelligence, asking instead how a fresh understanding of humanity can shape the trajectory of AI development. It draws on research interviews from ten leading AI practitioners and thinkers, and provides a distinctly biblical framework for understanding AI. Addressing all levels of expertise, the insights and guidelines provided will enable Christian leaders in church, business and public service to make informed responses to AI that are rooted in their faith.

Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 1995

Under the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona toil those who would rob humankind o f its humanity. These gray, soulless monsters methodically tear away at our meaning, our subjectivity, our essence as transcendent beings. With each advance, they steal our freedom and dignity. Who are these denizens of darkness, these usurpers of all that is good and holy? None other than humanity's arch-foe: The Cognitive Scientists-AI researchers, fallen philosophers, psychologists, and other benighted lovers of computers. Unless they are stopped, humanity-you and I-will soon be nothing but numbers and algorithms locked away on magnetic tape. What are the prospects of stopping these. .. these cognitive scientists? Not good; their power is enormous. They have on their side the darkest of forces: modern, Western logocentrism. Using this source, they aim at nothing less than a complete objectifying of humankind. This objectification-this replacing of the human spirit with a computational model of mind-is not only the most pernicious assault we humans have ever experienced, it is arguably the most insidious. It doesn't matter whether or not the objectifying world view is correct (arguments against it, even devastating arguments, apparently have no effect on it). All that matters is that it is useful in some limited technological sense. Why? Because, given humankind's love o f technology and our ability to re-invent ourselves, cognitive science's technological success will virtually guarantee that we will re-invent ourselves as computers. I quote G. B. Madison: [AI]'s real significance or worth [lies] solely in what it may contribute to the advancement of technology, to our ability to manipulate reality (including human reality), [but] it is not for all that an innocuous intellectual endeavor and is not without posing a serious danger to a properly human mode of existence. Because the human being is a self-interpreting or self-defining being and because, in addition, human understanding has natural tendency t o misunderstand itself (by interpreting itself to itself in terms of the objectified by-products of its own idealizing imagination; e.g., in terms of computers or logic machines)-because of this there is a strong possibility that, fascinated with their own technological prowess, moderns may very well attempt to understand themselves on the model of a