The AI phenomenon: methodological orients for empirical study
TL;DR
It is argued that the threats posed by artificial intelligence to human existence are untenable, provided that its role in vital decision-making is restricted to complementarity with human cognition, alongside increasing the responsibility of genuine intelligence.
Abstract
The rush AI involving into all spheres of social activity has resonated in the public consciousness as an existential threat. Deep-seated anthropomorphic perceptions of artificial intelligence have conditioned need scientific research into its capabilities and threats. The groundlessness of anthropomorphism regarding AI is explained by the philosophical proposition on the insuperability of the barrier between material formations at different levels of organization. A formal-logical model of intelligence will never reach the stage of its human prototype. The purpose of this scientific paper defined by us it is grounding the significance of philosophical methodology in scientific studies about the AI imprint onto the public consciousness. The scientific paper based on a philosophical perspective is revealing the subjectivity of the AI problem as a factor of the society self-destruction. Common sense, which humanity substitutes for a philosophical understanding of the problem, becomes one of the drivers behind the destructive consequences of the uncontrolled use of artificial intelligence. Conceptualization of the results of an inductive analysis of AI applications and modeling the deductive consequences in relevant fields of its applying is conducted by the author. It is noted the impossibility artificial intelligence achieves the human-level generative functions, which represent a synergy of rational and irrational reality comprehension. The nature of the artificial intelligence algorithm is constrained by the limitations of formal logic. It is argued that the threats posed by artificial intelligence to human existence are untenable, provided that its role in vital decision-making is restricted to complementarity with human cognition, alongside increasing the responsibility of genuine intelligence. Carry out of this task is theoretically possible through the informatization of society and the popularization of a philosophical level of thinking. The practical meaning of this study lies in the methodological reasons to study of the AI complementarity to the social generating in the decision-making. The scientific novelty lies in expanding the conceptualization of artificial intelligence in the public consciousness, based on a philosophical and methodological understanding of its nature.