AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-02021-y
Andy Crabtree, Glenn McGarry, Lachlan Urquhart
{"title":"AI and the iterable epistopics of risk","authors":"Andy Crabtree, Glenn McGarry, Lachlan Urquhart","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-02021-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-02021-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The risks AI presents to society are broadly understood to be manageable through ‘general calculus’, i.e., general frameworks designed to enable those involved in the development of AI to apprehend and manage risk, such as AI impact assessments, ethical frameworks, emerging international standards, and regulations. This paper elaborates how risk is apprehended and managed by a regulator, developer and cyber-security expert. It reveals that risk and risk management is dependent on mundane situated practices not encapsulated in general calculus. Situated practice surfaces ‘iterable epistopics’, revealing how those involved in the development of AI know and subsequently respond to risk and uncover major challenges in their work. The ongoing discovery and elaboration of epistopics of risk in AI (a) furnishes a potential program of interdisciplinary inquiry, (b) provides AI developers with a means of apprehending risk, and (c) informs the ongoing evolution of general calculus.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1425 - 1438"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-024-02021-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818181","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 : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-02018-7
Palanichamy Naveen
{"title":"The ethical dilemma of AI in hiring","authors":"Palanichamy Naveen","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-02018-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-02018-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1579 - 1580"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141811953","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 : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-02024-9
Karamjit S. Gill
{"title":"From an agent of love to an agent of data: a strange affair of man","authors":"Karamjit S. Gill","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-02024-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-02024-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"39 4","pages":"1543 - 1545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141813126","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 : 2024-07-15DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-02010-1
Quan-Hoang Vuong, Manh-Tung Ho
{"title":"The disruptive AlphaGeometry: is it the beginning of the end of mathematics education?","authors":"Quan-Hoang Vuong, Manh-Tung Ho","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-02010-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-02010-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1571 - 1573"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141648442","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 : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01993-1
Markus Rüther
{"title":"The meaningfulness gap in AI ethics: a guide on how to think through a complex challenge","authors":"Markus Rüther","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01993-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01993-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Technological outsourcing is increasingly prevalent, with AI systems taking over many tasks once performed by humans. This shift has led to various discussions within AI ethics. A question that was largely ignored until recently, but is now increasingly being discussed, concerns the meaningfulness of such a lifestyle. The literature largely features skeptical views, raising several challenges. Many of these challenges can be grouped under what I identify as the “meaningfulness gap”. Although this gap is widely acknowledged, there is a notable absence of systematic exploration in the literature. This paper aims to fill this void by offering a detailed, step-by-step guide for systematically exploring the different instances of the meaningfulness gap and aids in navigating their complexities. More specifically, it proposes differentiating the gaps according to their realms and objects, normative nature, scope, and severity. To make these areas manageable, the paper takes several taxonomies and distinctions on board. Finally, the guide is summarized, and some skeptical replies are anticipated and countered by clarificatory remarks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1403 - 1415"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-024-01993-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141653680","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 : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01991-3
Misha Rabinovich, Caitlin Foley
{"title":"The work of art in the age of AI reproducibility","authors":"Misha Rabinovich, Caitlin Foley","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01991-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01991-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Walter Benjamin wrote his prophetic essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” almost a century ago, yet it is still pertinent today. Benjamin warned that as art becomes devoid of aura through reproduction, less attention is needed to engage with it. What role does aura play in AI-generated work? Despite recent advances in AI it produces “artwork” that for the most part operates as entertainment. It can’t produce work that has grown out of reckoning with culture the way artists do in their efforts to provide space for grappling with deep questions that ultimately inform culture. Nevertheless, AI is potentially more disruptive to Art than to any other field. If AI becomes the dominant producer of art, this could lead to a sort of consensus trance with a generation of people consuming “art” that does not inspire questioning and new understandings of the world we live in. For centuries, the term “computer” referred to living, breathing humans. Today, no person can claim the title. Is this the fate of “artist”? By problematizing the ways we use AI, artists can help address the problem of how we as a culture should engage with it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1565 - 1567"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663495","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 : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01967-3
Jinqian Li
{"title":"Now you see me, now you don’t: why the UK must ban police facial recognition","authors":"Jinqian Li","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01967-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01967-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1563 - 1564"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141665241","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 : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-02009-8
Ashwin Tambe
{"title":"Balancing progress and preservation: can AI harmonize efficiency with the human experience in retail?","authors":"Ashwin Tambe","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-02009-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-02009-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1569 - 1570"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141666373","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 : 2024-07-06DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01999-9
Jan Söffner
{"title":"Virtualism: how AI replaces reality","authors":"Jan Söffner","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01999-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01999-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper traces the shift from the age of realism to the age of virtualism we are currently witnessing. To do so, I draw on older theories announcing this advent (mostly Baudrillard in <i>Simulacra and simulation</i>. Transl. Sheila Glaser. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994 [1981]; Serres in <i>Atlas</i>. Édition Julliard, Paris, 1994; Virilio in <i>The vision machine</i>. Transl. Rose J. Indiana UP, Bloomington, 1994). I will describe how AI destabilizes fundamental distinctions upon which reality is built—such as the difference between truth and fiction, between existence and simulation, between the actual and the potential, between game and everyday life, between person and avatar. Against the backdrop of a broader notion of the virtual (drawing on Deleuze in <i>The actual and the virtual</i>. Transl. Eliot Ross Albert in Parnet C Dialogues. Bloomsbury, London, pp 148–152, 2006 [1996]), I will read current realist theories (Chalmers in <i>Reality plus—virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy</i>. Allen Lane, London in 2022; Gabriel in <i>Why the world does not exist</i>. Transl. Gregory S. Moss. Polity, Cambridge, 2015; Ferraris in <i>Positive realism</i>. Zero Books, Arlesford, 2015; Meillassoux in <i>After finitude—an essay on the necessity of contingency</i>. Transl. Brassler R. Bloomsbury, London, 2008) as symptoms of the ongoing shift (rather than countermeasures against it), because they result in an inability to do justice to the epistemic and existential changes resulting from the erosion of the foundations of reality. The consequences of this shift are hard to predict and can only partially be outlined in this paper, which will end in a cautious attempt to do so (chapters 5 and 6). Starting off with a brief overview on this topic (chapter 1), I will trace the reasons for my diagnosis focusing first on what I call the “age of reality” currently coming to an end (chapter 2), then on why virtuality cannot be subsumed under reality (chapter 3), then how virtuality is currently replacing reality (chapter 4).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1389 - 1401"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-024-01999-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141671720","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}