AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01856-1
Noel Carroll
{"title":"Are we inventing ourselves out of our own usefulness? Striking a balance between creativity and AI","authors":"Noel Carroll","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01856-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01856-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"249 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139844571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01828-5
Lucas Scripter
{"title":"The achievement gap thesis reconsidered: artificial intelligence, automation, and meaningful work","authors":"Lucas Scripter","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01828-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01828-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>John Danaher and Sven Nyholm have argued that automation, especially of the sort powered by artificial intelligence, poses a threat to meaningful work by diminishing the chances for meaning-conferring workplace achievement, what they call “achievement gaps”. In this paper, I argue that Danaher and Nyholm’s achievement gap thesis suffers from an ambiguity. The weak version of the thesis holds that automation may result in the appearance of achievement gaps, whereas the strong version holds that automation may result on balance loss in possibilities for workplace achievements, i.e., in the appearance of an overall gappier work landscape. Against the strong version of the achievement gap thesis, I characterize situations where automation may result in boons to meaning-conferring workplace achievements: the appearance of what I call achievement spread and achievement swaps. Nevertheless, Danaher and Nyholm are right to worry about some uses of automation whereby human workers become subservient to AI. But these situations are better framed, I argue, as autonomy gaps rather than achievement gaps.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"89 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-023-01828-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139844309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01860-5
Max Tretter
{"title":"When discussing the desirability of religious robots: courage for theology!","authors":"Max Tretter","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01860-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01860-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"245 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-023-01860-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139856914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01848-1
Mamun Rashid
{"title":"Architect, AI and the maximiser scenario","authors":"Mamun Rashid","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01848-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01848-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"241 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139805019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01857-0
Yoshija Walter
{"title":"Artificial influencers and the dead internet theory","authors":"Yoshija Walter","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01857-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01857-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"239 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139862891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01861-4
Ariel Guersenzvaig, Javier Sánchez-Monedero
{"title":"AI research assistants, intrinsic values, and the science we want","authors":"Ariel Guersenzvaig, Javier Sánchez-Monedero","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01861-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01861-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"235 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139821355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01853-4
Rayyan Dabbous
{"title":"Why we should design less privileged AI systems","authors":"Rayyan Dabbous","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01853-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01853-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"233 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139886602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01850-7
Rebecca Raper
{"title":"A comment on the pursuit to align AI: we do not need value-aligned AI, we need AI that is risk-averse","authors":"Rebecca Raper","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01850-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01850-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"229 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140476420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01854-3
Paul R. Brewer, Liam Cuddy, Wyatt Dawson, Robert Stise
{"title":"Artists or art thieves? media use, media messages, and public opinion about artificial intelligence image generators","authors":"Paul R. Brewer, Liam Cuddy, Wyatt Dawson, Robert Stise","doi":"10.1007/s00146-023-01854-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-023-01854-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates how patterns of media use and exposure to media messages are related to attitudes about artificial intelligence (AI) image generators. In doing so, it builds on theoretical accounts of media framing and public opinion about science and technology topics, including AI. The analyses draw on data from a survey of the US public (<i>N</i> = 1,035) that included an experimental manipulation of exposure to tweets framing AI image generators in terms of real art, artists’ concerns, artists’ outrage, or competing interpretations. The results show that technology news use and science fiction viewing predicted support for AI art but also predicted belief that AI image generators will take jobs and steal art styles from human artists. In addition, the experimental results demonstrate that exposure to specific media messages can influence these responses. The findings carry implications for understanding the future adoption, use, and regulation of AI image generators.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"77 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-023-01854-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140482985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}