Feb 25, 2021
Artificial intelligence is killing choice and chance – changing what it means to be human
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI
FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of co-evolution.
Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological innovations – from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated – reshape people as they use these innovations to control their environment. Artificial intelligence is a new and powerful tool, and it, too, is altering humanity.