Contents of the RLDG Discussions on AI

• ----- THE DISCUSSION
  • --- Introduction
  • --- On the Nature / Definitions of Intelligence
  • --- Problems from AI in Use
  • --- Subject-by-proxy
  • --- On Morality / Responsibility of AI
  • --- Infatuation with AI
  • --- What Makes a Good Future? What is Responsibility?
  • --- AI in Existing and New Sectors
  • --- The AI Tools
  • --- Where Should We (RLDG) Apply Our Time?
  • --- One Priority: Danger to Humanity
  • --- Short-term and Long-term Concerns
  • --- Other Priorities
  • --- Five Main Areas of Interest in AI
  • --- Focus on Development and Use of AI
  • --- The Importance of Heart, Mindset, Ideology
  • --- Assumptions and Reductionism in AI Technology
  • --- Aspects of Knowledge Representation

• ----- ENDING
• ----- THEMED OVERVIEW

• ----- RESPONSES AFTER THE DISCUSSION
  • --- Responses from MM, 14 March 2022
  • -- Some initial responses by AB:

• ----- REFERENCES

• ----- Impacts of AI in War
  • --- AI and War: Scary
  • --- Effect on Politics
  • --- Different Perspectives on AI and War
  • --- Predicting Impacts of AI in Warfare?
  • --- What is the Difference in War with AI?
  • --- On Legitimacy

• ----- Aspects of AI in War
  • --- The Pistic / Faith Aspect of AI and War
  • --- The Ethical Aspect of Self-giving Love
  • --- AI and 'Emotion'
  • --- Q1: Empathy, Emotion, Consciousness, etc.

• ----- On Training ML Systems
  • --- How Do We Understand Data and Algorithms?
  • --- The Data Needed To Train Machine Learning
  • --- Three Questions
  • --- Data and Values

• ----- How to Understand Artificial Intelligence as Such
  • --- How Smart Need AI Be?
  • --- A Background Understanding of AI
  • --- Explainability of AI: Black and White Boxes
  • --- Quality of Knowledge Embodied in AI Systems

• ----- Some Philosophical Matters on AI
  • --- Ethics of AI
  • --- Conscience: The Forgotten Topic
  • --- Cultures

• ----- End of Meeting

• ----- OPENING

• ----- PART I. EXPLANATION OF AI
  • --- Screen 2. Four Types of AI
  • --- Screen 3. Classical and Contemporary AI Compared
  • --- Screen 4. AI - ML + BD
  • --- Screen 5. Supervissed ML
  • --- Screen 6. Unsupervised ML
  • --- Screen 7. Types of ML Algorithms
  • --- Helpful Understanding of AI
  • --- Real-life Application of AI and ML
  • --- On the Flaw in, and Limitations of, Machine Learning
  • --- AI Innovating?
  • --- Contribution of Reformational Philosophy to AI
  • --- Levels of Computer (AI) Operation
  • --- On Coding Reality into Data for ML/AI
    • -- The problem of changed coding systems
    • -- ML copes with change of coding system
    • -- Unreliability from changes in coding
  • --- Domain Experts
  • --- On Building and Using Expert Systems
    • -- The aggregated knowledge of the expert
    • -- The knowledge elicited for the SCC expert system
    • -- The individuality of the expert
    • -- Expert systems compared with machine learning systems
    • -- Actual use of expert systems: beyond the prediction role

• ----- PART II. AI AND THE ECONOMY
  • --- The Complexity of AI in the Human Business Situation
  • --- AI and Liberty
  • --- Human Work being Replaced by AI
  • --- AI, Economics and Juridical Aspect

• ----- PLANS FOR NEXT DISCUSSION

• ----- PART II CONTINUED: AI AND THE ECONOMY.
  • --- Two Technical Questions
  • --- AI Freeing People from Boring Jobs to do Creative Tasks
  • --- Leisure Time Freed up by AI
  • --- Substitute or Complement Human Activity?

• ----- NEXT MEETING

• ----- END MATERIAL
  • --- Questions Prepared for Discussion (and Sent Round)
  • --- References

• About This File [za400]

• ----- Initial Issues [za401]
  • --- The Politics of Unhappiness [za402]

• ----- AI and Economics: Conventional and Rethink [za404]
  • --- Essential and Nonessential [za406]
  • --- Spiritual needs [za408]
  • -- Essential-nonessential not binary opposites [za410]
  • --- Responsibility of AI: Embedded AI? [za412]
  • --- Which kind of technology is AI? [za414]
  • --- Responsibility of AI, continued [za416]

• ----- On the Capabilities of AI [za418]
  • --- AI Benefits More at Lower Levels, in Earlier Aspects [za419]
  • --- Using AI in art? [za421]
  • --- Minimal Human Coding in ML AI [za423]
  • --- Unhappiness, contd [za425]
  • --- Back to aesthetic aspect: Reductionism [za427]
  • --- Example of AI Art, 1 [za429]
  • --- Example of AI Art, 2 [za431]
  • --- How Wombo Actually Works [za433]
  • --- Fear that All Is Math in the End [za435]
  • --- Aesthetics and Number [za437]

• ----- AI and Economics: Jobs [za439]
  • --- Meaningful Jobs [za440]
  • --- Unconscious Meaningfulness (in Everyday Life) [za442]
  • --- AI and Meaningful Tasks [za444]
  • --- Good, Harmful and Useless [za446]
  • --- Two Steps in Understanding AI Use [za448]
  • --- Assessing Essentiality [za450]
  • --- Jobs, Identity and AI [za452]
  • --- Four Questions on AI and Jobs [za454]

• ----- Usage of AI [za456]
  • --- 'Delivery' of AI: What is AI Used For? [za457]
  • --- Two Purposes of Using AI [za459]
  • --- How to Understand that with Dooyeweerd [za461]

• ----- AI and the Economy in the Light of Our Rethink [za463]
  • --- Presupposing Paid Jobs? [za464]
  • --- (NB Leaves) [za466]
  • --- AI and Our Rethink of Economics [za467]
  • --- Issues Common to AI and Economics [za469]

• ----- End of Discussion [za471]

• ----- Questions Sent Before Discussion [za472]
  • --- Notes and References [za473]

• -- Contents
• -- About This Document
• ----- Introduction [za500]
• ----- Disccussion on General Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) [za501]
  • --- Two Powerful AI Systems [za502]
  • --- The LaMDA system [za503]
  • --- Has AI become Sentient? [za504]
  • --- GPAI and Some Players in the Field [za505]
  • --- Technologies [za506]
  • --- A Perspective: Seeing Neural Netc\s as Filtering Out Shannonian Noise? [za507]
  • --- Seeing AI NN as Decision Tree? [za508]
  • --- AI Engaging with Conversation Partner: Surprise [za509]
    • -- LaMDA Conversation [za510]
    • -- How Surprise? [za511]
  • --- AI Art [za512]
• ----- Discussing the Fourth Reith Lecture [za513]
  • --- On SR assuming GPAI [za514]
  • --- SR's Three Principles for GPAI [za515]
  • --- Ethics in AI [za516]
  • --- Serafimova's Paper, and Need for a Dooyeweerdian Approach [za517]
• ----- Towards A Dooyeweerdian Approach to AI [za518]
  • --- THe Big Picture [za519]
  • --- Ethics and Self-Giving Love [za520]
  • --- Multiple Aspects of Ethics [za521]
  • --- Leading Aspects [za522]
  • --- Preventing Harm. Example of False Information [za523]
  • --- AI To Help Prevent Harm? [za524]
  • --- Context-specific Harm-prevention [za525]
  • --- Initial Proposal for Dooyeweerdian Approach to AI [za526]
    • -- Applying Dooyeweerd in five major areas of concern in AI [za527]
    • -- A Dooyeweerdian approach to ethics [za528]
    • -- A Dooyeweerdian ethics for AI [za529]
• ----- Overview [za530]
  • --- What We Have Discussed [za531]
  • --- Future Discussions [za532]
  • --- On Stuart Russell's Reith Lectures [za533]
  • --- Ignoring Human Sin [za534]
• ----- Ending [za535]
  • --- Future Discussion [za536]
  • --- Additional Bits [za537]
  • --- References [za538]

• -- About This Document

• ----- Introduction to Discussion of JC's Questions [za600]
  • --- Structure of Discussion [za601]

• ----- Question 1. What have we learned regarding AI and the use of this new way of process information? [za602]
  • --- The Speed of AI [za603]
  • --- The Effect of AI on Human Working [za604]
  • --- Ambiguous Words [za605]
  • --- Similarities and Differences Between KR AI and KL AI [za606]

• ----- Question 2. What struck you the most about this new group of technologies? [za607]
  • --- Idolatry of AI [za608]
  • --- Responses to Idolatry [za609]
  • --- Right Enjoyment of AI [za610]

• ----- Q3: Why do you think we should care about the use of AI within human affairs? [za611]
  • --- More on Idolatry [za612]
  • --- On Use of AI [za613]

• ----- Q4. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchman?) [za614]

• ----- Q5: What is the new way of encapsulating AI, so that we may properly steward the spheres in groups that we are within, in our daily lives, for the glory of God and building the Kingdom? [za615]
  • --- Deifying AI [za616]
  • --- AI as a Shovel [za617]
  • --- Infrastructure: Societal and Physical [za618]
  • --- Wonder, not at AI, but at How we are Created as Humans [za619]
  • --- AI For Grace and Compassion [za620]
  • --- Goodness in Machine Learning [za621]
  • --- Compassion: Praying for Data Scientists [za622]
  • --- Two Levels of Building an AI System [za623]
    • -- About the Fundamental Level of Encapsulating Laws of Aspects [za624]
    • -- Vision for A General Purpose AI System [za625]

• ----- Aspects of Knowledge [za626]
  • --- Example of Inappropriate Representation Formalism [za627]
  • --- Inter-module Links: Inter-aspect Dependency [za628]
  • --- Building this System [za629]
  • --- Request for Writeup [za630]
  • --- Example: The Quantitative Aspect [za631]
  • --- The Spatial Aspect [za632]

• ----- Future Plans [za633]
  • --- Recommendation for Project: Two RLDG Threads in AI [za633]
  • --- Plans for Next Discussions [za634]

-- Contents of 7th RLDG Discussion on AI: ChatGPT Friday 10 March 2023