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AI & SOCIETY
Published in: AI & SOCIETY 6/2023

20-11-2023 | Editorial

Artificial thinking and doomsday projections: a discourse on trust, ethics and safety

Authors: Jeffrey White, Dietrich Brandt, Jan Söffner, Larry Stapleton

Published in: AI & SOCIETY | Issue 6/2023

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Abstract

The article reflects on where AI is headed and the world along with it, considering trust, ethics and safety. Implicit in artificial thinking and doomsday appraisals is the engineered divorce from reality of sublime human embodiment. Jeffrey White, Dietrich Brandt, Jan Soeffner, and Larry Stapleton, four scholars associated with AI & Society, address these issues, and more, in the following exchange.
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Footnotes
1
Jeffrey White has taught philosophy and ethics in the USA, South Korea and the Netherlands. He collaborates with Jun Tani's cognitive neurorobotics lab in Okinawa, and Robert Clowes's Mind, Cognition and Knowledge group in Lisbon. He serves as editor of the Student Forum for AI & Society.
 
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Dietrich Brandt holds a PhD in Physics and taught Physics at several German Universities, at the University of London and at M.I.T. (USA). From 1974 until his retirement in 2003, he worked at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, on the design of complex human–machine systems. From 1993 to 1999, he was chairman of the Committee on Social Impact of Automation, International Federation of Automatic Control IFAC.
 
3
Larry Stapleton is founding director of the inter-disciplinary Centre (INSYTE) for Information Systems & Techno-culture at the South East Technological University, Waterford. He is a senior academic and international consultant in advanced information systems, organisational culture and business. Following 5 years as a manager in a large multinational, he has worked as an advisor to business development agencies, Enterprise Ireland and FAS. He has advised the European Commission and INTAS, and national governments both inside and outside the EU. He has participated in seven European funded projects under various programmes since 1995, and has lead national and international research projects involving dozens of partners in Europe, USA and Asia since 1992.
 
4
Jan Söffner holds the chair for Cultural Theory and Cultural Analysis at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, where he also worked as Vice President for Teaching from 2018 to 2021. Jan earned his PhD in Italian Studies and his 'Habilitation' (second, post-doctoral dissertation) in Comparative Literature and Romance Studies. In 2016, he held the position of Program Director at Wilhelm Fink publishing house in Paderborn. He frequently writes articles for newspapers such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung and taz.
 
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Metadata
Title
Artificial thinking and doomsday projections: a discourse on trust, ethics and safety
Authors
Jeffrey White
Dietrich Brandt
Jan Söffner
Larry Stapleton
Publication date
20-11-2023
Publisher
Springer London
Published in
AI & SOCIETY / Issue 6/2023
Print ISSN: 0951-5666
Electronic ISSN: 1435-5655
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01810-1

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