Inbetweenism: Why Our Concepts Reach Their Limits When It Comes to Generative AI - Couverture rigide

Strasser, Anna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3111437787 ISBN 13 : 9783111437781

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2026

Synopsis

Recent technological leaps in Artificial Intelligence have led to new types of human-machine interactions that challenge the application of our existing ethical approaches: It is not clear what status should be assigned to the new artificial systems.

With a dichotomous framework distinguishing mere tools from social agents, one has only two options – either all artificial systems are mere tools and don´t have an ethical status, or some may be treated like living agents with an ethical status. Often, assumptions concerning their abilities are made too quickly in either extreme direction, such as (over-)attributions or plain denials. This invites the idea of a gradual approach that locates them on a spectrum in between the dichotomous distinctions.

To update our ethical positions, this book argues that AI technology gives rise to phenomena that fall through our dichotomous conceptual net and proposes a new framework – inbetweenism – which offers a wide variety of categories for discussing neglected in-between phenomena.

This is highly relevant because it is likely that societal changes will alter our understanding of the status of artificial systems in our social realm, as they might soon enter this realm as a new type of social agent.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Strasser, DenkWerkstatt Berlin / Cognition, Values, Behaviour – Interdisciplinary Research Lab from Munich (LMU), Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3111437787
• ISBN 13: 9783111437781
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 163
• Coordonnées du fabricant: De Gruyter; https://blog.degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Stra?e 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne