ISBN:
9780815392781
,
9780367761431
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 176 Seiten
Series Statement:
The future of the human
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Post-human futures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Post-human futures
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technological innovations Social aspects
;
Artificial intelligence Social aspects
;
Humanity
;
Künstliche Intelligenz
;
Technischer Fortschritt
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
"This volume engages with posthumanist and transhumanist approaches to present an original exploration of the question of how humankind will fare in the face of artificial intelligence. With emerging technologies now widely assumed to be calling into question assumptions about human beings and their place within the world, and computational innovations of machine learning leading some to claim we are coming ever closer to the long-sought artificial general intelligence, it defends humanity with the argument that technological 'advances' introduced artificially into some humans do not annul their fundamental human qualities. Against the challenge presented by the possibility that advanced artificial intelligence will be fully capable of original thinking, creative self-development and moral judgement, and therefore have claims to legal rights, the authors advance a form of 'essentialism' that justifies providing a 'decent minimum life' for all persons. As such, while the future of the human is in question, the authors show how dispensing with either the category itself or the underlying reality, is a less plausible solution than is often assumed"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
