Luciano Floridi
Italian-British philosopher of information and digital ethics; founding director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University and professor at the University of Bologna; author of The Fourth Revolution.
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Their wordsThe mathematicians understood what they were doing: either the agents did too, or we can now delegate the doing while keeping understanding human. I support the second alternative.
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Their wordsIf machines produce mathematics and humans certify it, we have confused quality control with mathematical inquiry.
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Their wordsAI is revealing what scarcity allowed us to overlook: the scarce resource in mathematics, as in science, was never ultimately the proof or the experiment but the brilliant question.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsAnd finally remembering that life is not logical but consequential.
↗On two sides of the same stupid coin (series: notes to myself)medium.com
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Their wordsThe interesting question is not whether philosophy is useful, but what its use costs: a philosophy the laboratories own keeps the salaries and loses the independence that was the point.
↗On why AI companies hire philosophers (series: notes to myself)medium.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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AI laboratories are not buying philosophy but the kind of person who chooses to study it.
Their wordsWhatever the press release says, the laboratories are not buying philosophy but the kind of person who chooses to study it.
↗On why AI companies hire philosophers (series: notes to myself)medium.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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You cannot optimise your way out of a dilemma; you need people trained to live inside one.
Their wordsYou cannot optimise your way out of a dilemma. You need people trained to live inside one.
↗On why AI companies hire philosophers (series: notes to myself)medium.com 3rd of 3 in this piece