OSU's School of History, Philosophy and Religion Presents: Outsourcing Our Agency: Interpersonal Relationships and Artificial Intelligence
Part of the Ideas Matter Series: The Ethical Challenges of AI
Is there anything wrong with using highly reliable AI to help us navigate interpersonal situations? Is there, for instance, anything inappropriate about using ChatGPT to write a reply to a partner's angry text, or to draft your wedding vows?
In this talk, philosopher Shannon Brick suggests that there are at least two different reasons to worry about using AI in these ways, even when doing so stands to improve the quality of our decisions. Attention to these reasons helps foreground what we stand to lose when we uncritically prioritize efficiency, on the one hand, and the avoidance of interpersonal conflict, on the other. It also helps to clarify, and support, one aspect of the idea that as AI is embraced in more domains, we stand to lose something that is essentially human.
This event is free and open to all.
About Shannon Brick
Shannon Brick is a philosopher working on issues at the intersection of ethics, the philosophy of technology, and epistemology. She is a Teaching Professor at Georgetown University and Associate Director of the interdisciplinary Technology, Ethics & Society program.
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