Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence will not kill human intelligence. This is the brief excerpt, reported by several sources, of the interview made by Adele Sarno to Luciano Floridi, philosopher and professor at Yale and Alma Mater of Bologna, published in recent days by HuffPost.
Luciano Floridi is one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary philosophy. Since 2013 he has been a full professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute of Oxford University, where he has directed the Digital Ethics Lab since 2017. Currently, he is the director and founder of the Yale Digital Ethics Center. A hub dedicated to studying the impact that new technologies will have on humans in the years to come.
Called to share his vision of the interaction between artificial and natural intelligence, Floridi has taken up the theme of his latest publication: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities.
The common thread can be aptly summed up with the metaphor used by the professor himself, that artificial intelligence will not replace human intelligence, just as frozen pizza has not taken the place of gourmet pizza.
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A clear and concise comparison that, however, has been considered by many as overly simplistic.
Artificial and human intelligence
As Floridi himself clarified in a LinkedIn post: “[the metaphor] refers to an incorrect narrative whereby, in the history of technology, the new always and completely replaces the old (example: car – carriages) when in fact the new is often complementary and adds to the old (example: electric razor – hand razor, or motorcycle – bicycle). If we compare (and it is already an irreparable error, but we admit this hypothesis by logical exercise) artificial and natural intelligence (not even human, a dog is enough), at least we must grant that it is a question of complementarity and not of replacement. Ergo: two types of pizza”.
Now, leaving aside metaphors and comparisons, what clearly remains of the professor’s thinking is the primacy of natural over artificial intelligence.
The fact that AI has reached previously unthinkable peaks does not mean that it will be able to continue this climb in the future. And even if it were, the two intelligences are for Floridi incomparable and clearly distinguishable from each other.
In short, artificial intelligence will not kill human intelligence.
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