PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Tangible changes in multiple areas of human life and society have been brought about by the advent of AI over the last decades (and more intensively in recent years). AI is arguably the most widespread and widely used digital technology of the recent period. More specifically, the changes concern the conditions of knowledge, work, education, reflection, environment or even artistic production. The debate on the dystopian potential replacement of humans by AI in these and other areas is also well known.

In this light, the need to return to and reconsider fundamental categories of human existence, as defined and analysed by philosophical reflection in previous centuries, is highlighted. The ultimate goal of such a rethink is to examine the possibility or impossibility of replacing humans with robotic AI systems in the future. What is an artist and what is a work of art? What are the conditions of constitution of work and what is a worker? Is education simply a transfer of information? How are politics and ethics defined, who are the actors in these fields, and to what extent can they be replaced by automated systems? Questions such as the above will be raised in the lessons and explored through philosophical texts and arguments.

The aim of the course is to review the foundations of the concepts, ideas and conditions developed by philosophical reflection on aspects of human life and to assess whether these can be replaced by automated systems or whether this dystopian vision of the future is based on unrealistic foundations - issues and problems that are important for every student of Digital Humanities to be aware of today.

The course will follow the argumentation and analyses of the chapters of the book given through Eudoxos.

As this is a seminar course, all students will present a form of essay.

This essay will be a detailed presentation of a chapter of the book at each subsequent meeting, beginning with the 3rd lesson. One student at a time will be assigned to present in depth the chapter of interest at the next meeting and after presenting it (in presentations of almost 20 minutes) will actively participate in the further development of the lecture together with the instructor.

Lesson 1: Introduction

Lesson 2: Man and AI

Lesson 3: AI under the microscope - concepts and definitions

Lesson 4: Brain - Mind - AI

Lesson 5: AI and Language

Lesson 6: Society and AI

Lesson 7: Deconstructing AI

Lesson 8: The New Nature of AI

Lesson 9: AI and the Environment

Lesson 10: Artificial Intelligence and Modern Imaginary

Lesson 11: AI and the Future

Lesson 12: AI and Gravity

Lesson 13: Between Man and Machine