‘Responsible AI’ (R-AI) is a contested term used across research, industry, and policy to describe AI that has been developed or deployed in a commendable and trustworthy way. Rather than having a single fixed meaning, it functions as an ecosystem…
The grounding problem is a challenge to the idea that a system which only has access to symbols, can refer to the reality beyond these symbols. This problem throws into doubt the ability of AI systems to understand or produce…
Superintelligence is the capacity for general reasoning and problem solving at a level that exceeds ordinary humans. Are current AI systems superintelligent? If not, will artificial superintelligence follow from current developments in deep learning? Key Points: What is superintelligence? Like…
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human mental characteristics to non-human entities. What factors make us treat an AI as if it were a human being, and are we making a mistake when we do so? Key Points: When a chatbot…
Metaphors present one thing in terms of another. In doing so, they enable us to understand an unfamiliar or complex subject by viewing it through the lens of something more familiar. They are cognitive tools that show us how to…