It’s struck me recently how incredibly prescient and thought-provoking Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence were. They were a philosophical exploration of the “potential for active collaboration with humankind in research, therapy and care” with a view to understanding the nature of the relationality that might exist between a human agent and, say, ChatGPT:
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351233477-3/considering-ai-personhood-margaret-archer?context=ubx&refId=2be78d9c-d443-4096-b10b-731f41eba1c2
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351189958-7/humans-ai-robots-friends-margaret-archer
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429351563-3/sapience-sentience-margaret-archer
I’m going to explore the possibility of getting these published as a short book, perhaps with some CSO collaborators co-writing an introduction to them because they offer incredibly relevant resources for understanding the developments which feel like they might rapidly overtake us at the moment.
