Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.80.1.1

Some (Wittgensteinian) Remarks on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Borut Cerkovnik ; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

I argue in favor of a distinction between human understanding and machine “understanding”. Based on Wittgenstein’s view on machines and his considerations on understanding, I aim to demonstrate that no machine with artificial intelligence can reach functional equality with human beings. In particular, this also holds for ethical praxis because it consists of an extremely blurred net of language– games, guided by ethical rules. Therefore, a machine can never have the human ability (disposition) to act ethically and cannot be a moral agent.

Keywords

Wittgenstein; artificial intelligence; applied ethics; understanding; human; robot; machine

Hrčak ID:

326914

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/326914

Publication date:

17.1.2025.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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