Post-human futures : human enhancement, artificial intelligence and social theory /
edited by Mark Carrigan and Douglas V. Porpora.
- 1 online resource.
- The future of the human .
"This volume engages with posthumanist and transhumanist approaches to present an original exploration of the question of how humankind will fare in the face of artificial intelligence. With emerging technologies now widely assumed to be calling into question assumptions about human beings and their place within the world, and computational innovations of machine learning leading some to claim we are coming ever closer to the long-sought artificial general intelligence, it defends humanity with the argument that technological 'advances' introduced artificially into some humans do not annul their fundamental human qualities. Against the challenge presented by the possibility that advanced artificial intelligence will be fully capable of original thinking, creative self-development and moral judgement, and therefore have claims to legal rights, the authors advance a form of 'essentialism' that justifies providing a 'decent minimum life' for all persons. As such, while the future of the human is in question, the authors show how dispensing with either the category itself or the underlying reality, is a less plausible solution than is often assumed"--
9781351189958 1351189956 9781351189941 1351189948 135118993X 9781351189934 9781351189927 1351189921
10.4324/9781351189958 doi
Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Humanity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
HM846
303.48/3
"This volume engages with posthumanist and transhumanist approaches to present an original exploration of the question of how humankind will fare in the face of artificial intelligence. With emerging technologies now widely assumed to be calling into question assumptions about human beings and their place within the world, and computational innovations of machine learning leading some to claim we are coming ever closer to the long-sought artificial general intelligence, it defends humanity with the argument that technological 'advances' introduced artificially into some humans do not annul their fundamental human qualities. Against the challenge presented by the possibility that advanced artificial intelligence will be fully capable of original thinking, creative self-development and moral judgement, and therefore have claims to legal rights, the authors advance a form of 'essentialism' that justifies providing a 'decent minimum life' for all persons. As such, while the future of the human is in question, the authors show how dispensing with either the category itself or the underlying reality, is a less plausible solution than is often assumed"--
9781351189958 1351189956 9781351189941 1351189948 135118993X 9781351189934 9781351189927 1351189921
10.4324/9781351189958 doi
Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Humanity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
HM846
303.48/3