{"id":140815,"date":"2022-06-19T17:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/joscha-bach-agency-in-an-age-of-machines"},"modified":"2022-06-19T17:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:02:44","slug":"joscha-bach-agency-in-an-age-of-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/joscha-bach-agency-in-an-age-of-machines","title":{"rendered":"Joscha Bach \u2014 Agency in an Age of Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uc112kET-i0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Synopsis: The arrival of homo sapiens on Earth amounted to a singularity for its ecosystems, a transition that dramatically changed the distribution and interaction of living species within a relatively short amount of time. Such transitions are not unprecedented during the evolution of life, but machine intelligence represents a new phenomenon: for the first time, there are agents on earth that are not part of the biosphere. Instead of competing for a niche in the ecosystems of living systems, AI might compete with life itself.<\/p>\n<p>How can we understand agency in the context of the cooperation and competition between AI, humans and other organisms?<\/p>\n<p>This talk was part of the \u2018Stepping Into the Future\u2018conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ab8liyt5Jh\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifuture.org\/agency-in-age-of-machines-joscha-bach\/\">Agency in an Age of Machines \u2013 Joscha Bach<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Agency in an Age of Machines &#8211; Joscha Bach&#8221; &#8212; Science, Technology &amp; the Future\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifuture.org\/agency-in-age-of-machines-joscha-bach\/embed\/#?secret=NWoUtUVrlC#?secret=Ab8liyt5Jh\" data-secret=\"Ab8liyt5Jh\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bio: Joscha Bach, Ph.D. is an AI researcher who worked and published about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Osnabr\u00fcck, Germany, and has built computational models of motivated decision making, perception, categorization, and concept-formation. He is especially interested in the philosophy of AI and in the augmentation of the human mind.<\/p>\n<p>Joscha has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabr\u00fcck.<\/p>\n<p>His book \u201cPrinciples of Synthetic Intelligence \u2013 PSI: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition\u201d (Oxford University Press) is available on amazon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/joscha-bach-agency-in-an-age-of-machines\">Continue reading \u201cJoscha Bach \u2014 Agency in an Age of Machines\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: The arrival of homo sapiens on Earth amounted to a singularity for its ecosystems, a transition that dramatically changed the distribution and interaction of living species within a relatively short amount of time. 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