A Quick Overview of The Philosophical Branches of AI
Murat Durmus
CEO & Founder @ AISOMA AG | Thought-Provoking Thoughts on AI | Member of the Advisory Board AI Frankfurt | Author of the book "MINDFUL AI" | AI | AI-Strategy | AI-Ethics | XAI | Philosophy
This short overview shows the most essential philosophical branches of AI. I know that the overview is very superficial, but it can still be helpful to structure your thoughts when thinking about AI in depth.
Ethics of AI
Focus: The moral implications of AI development and deployment.
Key Questions: How should AI be used? What are the rights and wrongs of AI actions?
Epistemology of AI
Focus: The nature and scope of AI knowledge.
Key Questions: Can AI truly "know" anything? What are the limits of AI understanding?
Ontology of AI
Focus: The nature of being and existence in AI.
Key Questions: What is the nature of AI entities? Do AI systems possess consciousness or personhood?
Philosophy of Mind
Focus: The relationship between AI and human cognition.
Key Questions: Can AI replicate human thought? What is the difference between human and machine minds?
AI and Free Will
Focus: The autonomy and decision-making of AI systems.
Key Questions: Can AI possess free will? To what extent can AI systems make independent choices?
Ethical AI Design
Focus: Designing AI systems that adhere to ethical principles.
Key Question: How can we ensure AI systems are fair, transparent, and accountable?
“Graduates of philosophy and ethics will be in high demand in the future to investigate AI-related processes through a human lens.”
~ Murat Durmus (Mindful AI)
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1 个月Thanks for this great overview and the important key questions Murat Durmus.
Founder & AI Systems Architect | Solving problems with AI. GNN, LLM, Neurosymbolic, Ontologies, Data Science.
1 个月Very good, and important. That said, I am trying to get this in the math. So philosophers and ethicists can't really see the beautiful geometries of consciousness, one that is deep in the physics and geometries, expressible in the math of the computation for DNNs or any AI ML app. I am lucky I was a philosopher before I went to the whole field of AI, hence I am seeing beyond. I would gladly put a team of philosophers and logicians to explain to each other the ramblings, just to end with a very simple set of rules ??. Anyways ...keep working.
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