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Can Artificial Intelligence become an Agent Like a Human Being?

  • Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association
  • 2020, 21(1), pp.71-85
  • DOI : 10.37305/JKBA.2020.06.21.1.71
  • Publisher : The Korean Bioethics Association
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : April 22, 2020
  • Accepted : June 23, 2020
  • Published : June 30, 2020

Kyungsuk Choi ORD ID 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to clarify the ontological status of artificial intelligence and features of human intelligence by dealing with the difference between them. Recently, as AlphaGo shows, artificial intelligence has the network of computers and adopts deep learning technology with big data. Further, artificial intelligence is introduced to the scope of emotion as well as to that of calculation. However, artificial intelligence just imitates human emotion because subjectivity and holistic personality of emotion exposer must be presupposed and because emotion plays a role with authenticity. the function of human brain is to make a human being survive. Human intelligence can be defined as a problem-solving capacity for survival. Thus, artificial intelligence is not the same as human intelligence. In order for artificial intelligence to be an human intelligence, it uses its intelligence for its problem-solving for survival. But it is hard to say that artificial intelligence has a desire to survive. In addition, it is also hard to say that artificial intelligence has or will have self-awareness like human being’s. Human self-awareness is a very high level of intelligence activity in which a human being recognizes one’s finitude as a biological organism and one’s self identity as well as otherness through the cooperation with others. The difference between artificial intelligence and human one leads us to think that an artificial intelligence cannot become an agent with intention and not even moral agent. The attitude or project to consider artificial intelligence to be an human intelligence is only to show that there are big differences between them.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.