Speciality Political Analysis and Political Theory
Library of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology

2025-01-07

2025

Kalfas Symeon

Γεράσιμος Κουζέλης, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Κανάκης Λελεδάκης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Λέανδρος Κυριακόπουλος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Κοινωνιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ

Αόρατα Νήματα: Τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, γνώση, και αυθεντία

Greek

Phantom Threads: Artificial intelligence, knowledge and authority

The main purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relation between artificial intelligence, and knowledge and rationality, a question which was approached mainly through the concept of authority. The focus is on the potential of some contemporary artificial intelligence systems to be viewed as authorities and how this impacts existing structures and pathologies of human expertise. An equally important theme that underpins the main arguments throughout this dissertation is that of understandability. Of how, that is, we can critically approach the fact that the current "next big thing" is an ununderstandable, unexplainable invention - deep learning systems - and if that can be reconciled with our notions of subjectivity, of science, of the rational planning of society.
In this sense, deep learning systems represent, beside their very considerable applications, an epistemological paradox. It has been almost 100 years since David Hilbert, the so called "pope of mathematics in the 20th century", concluded his speech to the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians exclaiming: "We must know! We will know!" An ununderstandable technology, which we could even say understands certain fields in our stead, represents on the one hand a hyperbole of Hilbert's statement - we will know no matter what, the world will be known even if we don't understand it. It is, however, at the same time, its negation, a recognition of the world's complexity and a resignation from the effort to describe it and rationally organise it.

Social, Political and Economic sciences

Artificial Inteligence, knowledge, authority, deep learning, explainability, expertise, science, bullshit, alphafold, alphago, power, understanding, explainability, marionetes, Touring test

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