The truth and AI
Towards a new hermeneutic of the academic subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20318492 |
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| Authors | Krešimir Petković (0000-0003-3319-1838, University of Zagreb, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 581-611 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologija (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0318 • E-ISSN: 2406-0712 |
| Publisher | National Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS) |
| DOI | 10.2298/soc2404581p |
| OpenAlex | W4406477914 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In the article, a thought experiment is conducted to assess the significance of Michel Foucault?s thought in the confrontation with the challenges posed by the usage of AI technology for the self in the academic world and global society. The same set of questions is posed to the author and to three popular AI engines used by subjects in the academic and global digitalized social environment. General questions about discourse production, power relations, technologies of the self in academia and globally are paired with a set of specific questions concerning Foucault today, his possible take on the AI problem, the fictive contemporary debate between Foucault and Chomsky, and the meaning of truth. The results are presented and compared, exemplifying both advantages and shortcomings of human and AI answers. The conclusion offers a balance between an overly skeptical and overly enthusiastic evaluation of AI-aided technologies of the self in the academic and broader social environment, as well as an evaluation of Foucaut?s philosophical quest
Epistemology · Library science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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