The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence
Agency and Value Alignment
Published on 22. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-350-34840-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this open access book, Carlos Montemayor illuminates the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by examining our drive to live a dignified life.
He uses the notions of agency and attention to consider our pursuit of what is important. His method shows how the best way to guarantee value alignment between humans and potentially intelligent machines is through attention routines that satisfy similar needs. Setting out a theoretical framework for AI Montemayor acknowledges its legal, moral, and political implications and takes into account how epistemic agency differs from moral agency.
Through his insightful comparisons between human and animal intelligence, Montemayor makes it clear why adopting a need-based attention approach justifies a humanitarian framework. This is an urgent, timely argument for developing AI technologies based on international human rights agreements.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Carlos Montemayor and San Francisco State University.
He uses the notions of agency and attention to consider our pursuit of what is important. His method shows how the best way to guarantee value alignment between humans and potentially intelligent machines is through attention routines that satisfy similar needs. Setting out a theoretical framework for AI Montemayor acknowledges its legal, moral, and political implications and takes into account how epistemic agency differs from moral agency.
Through his insightful comparisons between human and animal intelligence, Montemayor makes it clear why adopting a need-based attention approach justifies a humanitarian framework. This is an urgent, timely argument for developing AI technologies based on international human rights agreements.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Carlos Montemayor and San Francisco State University.
Reviews / Votes
The book by Montemayor is based on the solid ground of attention mechanisms, and it offers an urgent and original reflection on AI, the alignment of values, and the relevance of human rights in the development of AI systems. * Antonio Chella, Professor in Robotics, University of Palermo, Italy * This book provides an important addition to current debates about the promise and perils of AGI. Montemayor's needs-and-attention-based approach to AGI highlights the importance of attention for genuine intelligence ... [A] ripe text for future engagement, and scholars will be rewarded for wrestling with the problems presented here. * AI & Society *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-34840-0 (9781350348400)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Carlos Montemayor is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA.
Content
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction: Normative Aspects of AI Development
1. Intelligence and Artificiality
2. General Intelligence and the Varieties of AI Risk-A Hierarchy of Needs
3. The Attentional Model of Epistemic Agency-The Main Source of Rational Trust in Humans (and Future AI)
4. The Handicaps of Unemotional Machines
5. The Vitality of Experience Against Mechanical Indifference
6. Are AIs Essentially Collective Agents?
7. The Legal, the Ethical, and the Political in AI Research
8. Human Rights and Human Needs
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction: Normative Aspects of AI Development
1. Intelligence and Artificiality
2. General Intelligence and the Varieties of AI Risk-A Hierarchy of Needs
3. The Attentional Model of Epistemic Agency-The Main Source of Rational Trust in Humans (and Future AI)
4. The Handicaps of Unemotional Machines
5. The Vitality of Experience Against Mechanical Indifference
6. Are AIs Essentially Collective Agents?
7. The Legal, the Ethical, and the Political in AI Research
8. Human Rights and Human Needs
Notes
References
Index