The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence Agency and Value Alignment

• Main Author: Montemayor, Carlos
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2023; Bloomsbury Academic
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: animal intelligence; Artificial intelligence; attention; civil rights; cognition; Cognitive studies; Computer science; Computing and Information Technology; consciousness; epistemic agency; Epistemology; ethics; Ethics and Moral Philosophy; human needs; human rights; Human rights, civil rights; humans; Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTK Cognitive studies; Interdisciplinary studies; machines; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge; Political control and freedoms; Politics and government; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::G Reference; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence; Topics in philosophy
• ISBN: 9781350353275; 1350353272; 9781350348387; 1350348384
• DOI: 10.5040/9781350353275

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.