Four Concluding Thoughts

Abstract

The final chapter considers or reconsiders four topics that are important for philosophers coming to terms with AI communication: the fact that AI systems’ goals might change without human intervention and become misaligned with humans’ goals. It is argued that such possibilities make it both particularly important but also particularly difficult to give theories of AI communication. The second topic is the external mind hypothesis: the author considers its relevance for AI systems. The third considers what we can learn about so-called adversarial perturbations, and suggests they can help us reply to the sceptic Alfred from Chapter 2. Finally, the chapter concludes by considering again explainable AI, suggesting that the externalistic perspective offers can help us understand what we can and cannot require of explainable AI systems.