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Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron: The importance of an organic body when facing unknown situations as they unfold in the present moment
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). Malmö University, Data Society.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5097-6218
2023 (English)In: AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence, ISSN 0951-5666, E-ISSN 1435-5655, Vol. 38, no 1, p. 363-372Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Departing from popular imaginations around artificial intelligence (AI), this article engages in the I in the AI acronym but from perspectives outside of mathematics, computer science and machine learning. When intelligence is attended to here, it most often refers to narrow calculating tasks. This connotation to calculation provides AI an image of scientificity and objectivity, particularly attractive in societies with a pervasive desire for numbers. However, as is increasingly apparent today, when employed in more general areas of our messy socio-cultural realities, AI- powered automated systems often fail or have unintended consequences. This article will contribute to this critique of AI by attending to Nicholas of Cusa and his treatment of intelligence. According to him, intelligence is equally dependent on an ability to handle the unknown as it unfolds in the present moment. This suggests that intelligence is organic which ties Cusa to more contemporary discussions in tech philosophy, neurology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive sciences in which it is argued that intelligence is dependent on having—and acting through—an organic body. Understanding intelligence as organic thus suggests an oxymoronic relationship to artificial.

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Springer, 2023. Vol. 38, no 1, p. 363-372
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Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Philosophy, Body, Cusa, Nonconsciousness, Organic, Presence
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Human Aspects of ICT
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-46646DOI: 10.1007/s00146-021-01311-zISI: 000714828000001PubMedID: 34754144Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118632481OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-46646DiVA, id: diva2:1609108
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Malmö UniversitySwedish Research Council, 2017-01195Available from: 2021-11-05 Created: 2021-11-05 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved

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