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The AI-Stance: Crossing the Terra Incognita of Human-Machine Interactions?

conference contribution
posted on 2025-05-07, 10:23 authored by Anna Strasser, Michael Wilby
Although even very advanced artificial systems do not meet the demanding conditions which are required for humans to be a proper participant in a social interaction, we argue that not all human-machine interactions (HMIs) can appropriately be reduced to mere tool-use. By criticizing the far too demanding conditions of standard construals of intentional agency we suggest a minimal approach that ascribes minimal agency to some artificial systems resulting in the proposal of taking minimal joint actions as a case of a social HMI. Analyzing such HMIs, we utilize Dennett’s stance epistemology, and argue that taking either an intentional stance or design stance can be misleading for several reasons, and instead propose to introduce a new stance that is able to capture social HMIs—the AI-stance.

History

Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

366

Page range

286-295

ISSN

0922-6389

Publisher

IOS Press

ISBN

9781643683744

Conference proceeding

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Name of event

5th Biennial Robophilosophy Conference on Social Robots in Social Institutions

Location

FINLAND, Helsinki

Event start date

2022-08-16

Event finish date

2022-08-19

Editors

Hakli R, Makela P, Seibt J

Affiliated with

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences Outputs