How Imagination Shapes AI Regulation
My conversation with Dr. Claudio Novelli and Prof. Steven Winter | Edition #291
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How Imagination Shapes AI Regulation
This week, I spoke with Dr. Claudio Novelli, of the Yale Digital Ethics Center, and Prof. Steven Winter, from Wayne State University Law School, about their recent paper, “The Artificial in ‘Artificial Intelligence’: How Imagination Shapes AI Regulation.”
This is the same paper I recently recommended in my AI Ethics Paper Club, and it sparked an interesting, interdisciplinary discussion at our latest AI Ethics Workshop on the role of metaphors in AI.
We talked for 46 minutes about cognitive linguistics, the use of metaphors in AI, AI regulation, the risks of AI anthropomorphism, explainability, the AI consciousness debate, legal personhood, and more.
If you are interested in AI, AI regulation, and the risks of using metaphors in AI, do not miss our conversation. Watch it here:
Video chapters:
00:00 - Cognitive linguistics and AI regulation
05:04 - AI, metaphors, and science fiction
06:33 - The risks of AI anthropomorphism
14:18 - AI's “chain of thought” and the illusion of explainability
16:19 - The legal challenges of the “intelligence” metaphor
20:10 - The AI consciousness debate
29:00 - AI and legal personhood
35:37 - How metaphors affect AI regulation
42:07 - AI usage and the future of AI
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