5:00pm-6:00pm on Saturday 21 March
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Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT
Is AI about to take over and become AGI (artificial general intelligence)? This talk argues that although AI is intelligent, it is not wise. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology and the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, it argues that, although current AI has a capacity for intelligent instrumental rationality, it lacks the distinctively human capacity to deliberate about aims, ends and values.
Dr Michael Wilby [https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/michael-wilby] has been a Lecturer in Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University since 2010, and the Course Leader for Philosophy (and for Philosophy and English Literature) since 2017. He previously spent several years teaching English in Prague and London, before winning a Graduate Teaching Scholarship at the University of York, where he completed his PhD in 2008 on the role of social interaction in the constitution of rational and intentional thought. He is the author of articles and presentations relating to social cognition, collective intentionality, interpersonal normativity, common knowledge and joint attention. He is currently engaged with a range of cross-disciplinary issues clustered around the philosophy of artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, social agency, interpersonal normativity and social cognition.
Event presented by Anglia Ruskin University.
