Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume II

Values and Governance

By (author) Alice C Helliwell, Alessandro Rossi, Brian Ball

Publication date:

10 September 2024

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839991394

Volume II

This collection brings together work on the relevance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Over two volumes, our contributors cover a wide range of topics from different disciplinary approaches. In this Volume (II), contributions are centred on two major themes in the philosophy of AI: questions of value and governance. Contributions include chapters on both ethics and aesthetics and AI, as well as questions of the governance of AI systems, including legal and policy issues.

Introduction; Brian Ball, Alice C. Helliwell and Alessandro Rossi; Chapter 1. Is, Ought and Wittgenstein ; Alessandro Rossi; Chapter 2. When Saying Sorry Is the Hardest Game to Play: Wittgenstein, AI and the Quest for Transparency; Burkhard Schafer; Chapter 3. Wittgensteinian Considerations of the Moral Status of Robots; Paula Sweeney; Chapter 4. Can Machines Act Ethically?; Luca Alberto Rappuoli; Chapter 5. Investigating Deepfakes: The Rise of New Authorities and the Question of Deepfake Regulation; Mehmet Taylan Cüyaz; Chapter 6. AI and the Cluster Account of Art; Alice C. Helliwell; Chapter 7. An Anthropology of the User in the Age of AI; Richard Harper; Chapter 8. Legal and Computer Rules: An Overview Inspired by Wittgenstein’s Remarks; Gianmarco Gori; Chapter 9 Practice Makes Human: Why We Can’t Understand Black-Box Artificial Intelligence; Jean-Charles Pelland, Jasmin Trächtler and Helene Love; Notes on Contributors; Index

‘This book offers fresh perspectives on AI through Wittgensteinian lenses: meaning as use, secondary meaning, creativity in rule-following, universals as family resemblances, analogical thinking, truthfulness, cognition embodied, language-games anchored in shared ways of living and acting – and thus potentially always more than what can be captured by LLMs.’ — Alois Pichler, Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bergen, and Head of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB)