Chatbots and the Domestication of AI: A Relational Approach

ISBN-13: 9783030562892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 183 str.

Hendrik Kempt

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1. Smart Fridges and other Reifications

1.2. What’s to come?

chapter 2: Methods 

2.1. Concepts and Conceptual Analysis

2.2. Description and Evaluation of Technologies

2.3. Distinctions and Discovery in Philosophy of Technology

2.4. Normative Philosophy of Technology

2.5. Moral Philosophy, Morality, Ethics 

2.6. AI Ethics

2.7. Conclusion

Chapter 3: Social Relationships

3.1. The Concept of the Social

3.2. Towards a Digital Society 

3.3. Assigning social descriptors

3.4. From Social Descriptors to Social Relationships

3.5. Agent-Network Theory, Attachment Theories

3.6. Gender as Relational Descriptor

3.7. Institutionalized Relationships and Relationships qua Humanity

3.8. Domestication as a Social Technique 

3.9. Against Relational Arbitrariness

3.10. Lessons for Imminent Changes or: The Rise of Human-Machine Relationships 

Chapter 4: Conversational Artificial Agents

4.1. Definitions

4.2. A short history of Chatbots

4.3. Is ML-AI the future of chatbots?

4.4. AI – General or narrow?

4.5. The Economics of NLP 

4.6. Turing Test and its human limits

4.7. Conclusion: Why think about AI in the first place?

Chapter 5: Chatbots as Social Agents

5.1. Rethinking Social Descriptors 

5.2. Philosophical Implications of (Non-)Anthropomorphism

5.3. Patiency and Pragmacentrism

5.4. Relating to the Artificial 

5.5. A Second Domestication

5.6. From Social Descriptors to Social Agents

5.7. A Second Domestication – Continued

5.8. Conclusion

6. Social Reverberations

6.1. Robot Rights

6.2. Human-centered design

6.3. Including non-human agents in normative systems

6.4. New Social Fault Lines

6.5. Conclusion

Chapter 7: Conclusion

7.1. Thinking Forward

7.2. Acting Forward

O autorze

Hendrik Kempt, M.A. is Research Associate at the Institute for Applied Ethics at RWTH Aachen, Germany, and was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and Brown University, USA. He is author of Moral Progress and AI (in Yearbook of Practical Philosophy, 2019), and editor of RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy (2020).

Blurb

This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents. It reviews the possibility of establishing meaningful social relationships with chatbots and investigates the consequences of those relationships for contemporary debates in the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. The author introduces current technological challenges of AI and discusses how technological progress and social change influence our understanding of social relationships. He then argues that chatbots introduce epistemic uncertainty into human social discourse, but that this can be ameliorated by introducing a new ontological classification or 'status' for chatbots. This step forward would allow humans to reap the benefits of this technological development, without the attendant losses. Finally, the author considers the consequences of chatbots on human-human relationships, providing analysis on robot rights, human-centered design, and the social tension between robophobes and robophiles.