Unwinding AI's Moral Maze: Hypertext's Ethical Potential
This paper considers hypertext in its various forms as a paradigm that has the potential to reduce a number of ethical concerns that come with (generative) AI. Based on a user scenario, the paper points out some ethical issues and explains how they can be addressed by hypertext. To do so, it distinguishes between System 1 (fast automation of simple tasks) and System 2 (critical thinking) tasks. Drawing on existing publications in philosophy, the paper argues that AI systems cannot be moral agents; they cannot be trustworthy or truly intelligent. This breaks with some of the wording, partly used for marketing purposes, that currently makes “artificial intelligence” a hype. The analysis follow
doi
10.1145/3648188.3678213
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979-8-4007-0595-3
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Unwinding AI's Moral Maze: Hypertext's Ethical Potential
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3648188.3678213
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Claus Atzenbeck
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3678213
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CC BY 4.0
summary
This paper considers hypertext in its various forms as a paradigm that has the potential to reduce a number of ethical concerns that come with (generative) AI. Based on a user scenario, the paper points out some ethical issues and explains how they can be addressed by hypertext. To do so, it distinguishes between System 1 (fast automation of simple tasks) and System 2 (critical thinking) tasks. Drawing on existing publications in philosophy, the paper argues that AI systems cannot be moral agents; they cannot be trustworthy or truly intelligent. This breaks with some of the wording, partly used for marketing purposes, that currently makes “artificial intelligence” a hype. The analysis follow
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2024-09-10
conference
HT '24: 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Poznan, Poland, September 10-13, 2024
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3648188.3678213
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Claus Atzenbeck , Institute for Information Systems, Hof University, Germany, claus.atzenbeck@iisys.de
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2024-09-10