This book (my own) focuses on the intersubjective foundations of morality and ethics, and puts human relations to AI in the context of other morally troubling relations with non-humans and "near-humans" that seem to challenge the definition of the human itself.
In times like these, we must not forget that human flourishing can occur not only alongside the growth of artificial intelligence, but also amid suffering and destitution. Frankl reminds us in his book how resilient the human spirit is in literally willing meaning in places where one may suspect it to be most elusive. In Man’s Search for Meaning, I hope the reader realizes the inspirational infinity that is ingrained in every human which, by all comparison, makes even artificial intelligence inconsequential.
This is a story about a society that enjoys peace, harmony, and technological advancement at the cost of one small child's misery. The story succinctly encapsulates the ethical quandaries of AI and our technofuture.
Freud provides a roadmap for a sensible and logical approach to that most human of activities: dreaming. This book isn't important for the People's Canon in that it tells us how to correctly interpret dreams. Instead, it shows us how psychoanalysis sought out methods for translating the numinous into legible data archives located within individual consciousness. In this way, Freud exemplifies the drive toward explaining the ineffable in as close to material and individual terms as possible that formulates the ideological underpinnings of AI's rhetoric.
The article contains results from empirical studies describing the effect of generative AI on work practices and knowledge acquisition, two key elements of human flourishing.
Early but convincing example of bias built into the fashioning of algorithms that exclude people of color. Human flourishing remains a challenge because AI will never be context independent no matter how extensive the LLM. Social bias remains so our participation must include an intentional focus on people on the margins.
Snow Crash explores the depth of what it means to be human in a technologically obsessed culture. Snow Crash is also credited with being the source of the Metaverse and anticipated things like techno-currency and the collapse of information and surveillance networks.
ims to present the Baha'i Houses of Worship (or temples) as places where members of all religions are welcome, as a form of human flourishing. While the latter is true, other than 2 images, the AI generated Baha'i temples don't look like any of the existing ones. The video also aims to represent the ethic of human unity in diversity that is central to the Baha'i Faith - while there's only so much that can be captured in a 1:13 minute video, mentioning only Buddhists, Christians & Muslims is problematic (some of the comments on Facebook show this). I'm nominating this as an example of an AI work that has good intentions, but creates an incomplete & even inaccurate & potentially contentious picture of the subject of religious flourishing. Perhaps addressing its problems can advance discourse & understanding of human religious flourishing in the age of AI.
This book-length essay comes at AI technology through a compelling examination of the author's own history of faith, crisis of faith, and her ongoing project to understand the human in relation to the three other positions in her title. It's a remarkably clear-headed appreciation of our cultural moment, free of both hype and moral panic.
