Full Article: [pdf] DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22503/inftars.XXV.2025.2.3 Language: en Author(s):  Primož Krašovec
Title: The AI effect today: On denials of AI’s intelligence Abstract: This article analyses the AI effect—briefly, the denial of AI’s intelligence—in three steps. First, it explains the tendency to deny that AI is truly intelligent. Due to experiencing its own intelligence as self-awareness, the human mind cannot help but to tie any intelligence to self-awareness. Thus, for AI to be regarded as intelligent, it would need to have self-awareness, and because it does not, humans tend to deny that AI is intelligent in any way. Second, the article presents the AI effect as an ethical issue insofar as the effect denies that AI is indeed intelligent, albeit in ways different from humans. Third, it analyses a characteristic case of the AI effect—insistence that AI is not intelligent because it has no sentience—by examining the retroactive denigration of AlphaGo. Keywords: AI, AI ethics, AI effect, intelligence, awareness, AlphaGo
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