ARIC Tip | Mind and artificial intelligence

Lecture and discussion with Prof. Dr. Daniel Martin Feige

Progress in the field of artificial intelligence raises philosophical questions. If scientific and literary texts, pieces of music and images can be created not only by human hands, but also with the help of AI, the thought arises that we must attribute rudimentary or even far-reaching mental abilities to an AI.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Martin Feige’s lecture shows that this is a false conclusion. On the basis of considerations based on a definition of the concept of thinking, it can be shown that we cannot attribute the ability to think to an AI.

Applying terms such as ‘thinking’ to artificial intelligence does not – according to the broader thesis – discover mind in places where we previously did not suspect it. Rather, through such attributions, we are rebuilding the concept of ourselves as free, rational and self-aware actors – a rebuilding that is an expression of a technological as well as political threat to our deliberative abilities.

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