Envisioning the future of AI society: from a technological to a technosocial vision
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In recent years, intense debate has emerged surrounding the long-term impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human society. While some envision AI as a catalyst for utopia, others warn of catastrophic consequences. These discourses are often infiltrated by predictions allegedly based on objective data and robust foresight, but they are viewpoints based on specific norms and assumptions and concern a highly uncertain future. Furthermore, these perspectives often oversimplify the complex relationship between technology and society, treating the future as predetermined by technological advancement. The aim of this seminar is to critically analyze the discourse on the long-term future of AI society and reconsider the value of exploring such future visions from a ‘technosocial’ perspective. The technosocial approach that will be advanced during our seminar indicates that discourses on the future of AI society shall not be narrowed to prophecy and prediction but are fueled and shaped by specific norms and assumptions, which need to be unraveled. The goals of our seminar are: (1) Develop a critical analysis of the normative and conceptual assumptions of utopian and dystopian discourses about the future of AI in our societies; (2) Explore the significance of these futuristic discourses aside their aspiration of being objective predictions; (3) Propose technosocial future visions of a human society co-existing with AI systems. This approach to AI futures in hermeneutic spirit is based on the conviction that upholding a sharp distinction between technology and the social is one of the ideological constraints that many AI futures could help us overcome. The organizers seek to build the foundations for long-term cooperation between the two main participating institutions (TU Delft & Hokkaido University). Aside from advancing our main research questions, it is our dedicated goal to build a research group that can be elevated to the status of a Special Interest Group within the Society for Philosophy of Technology (SPT) (https://www.spt.org/sigs/).
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