Steps towards a therapeutic artificial intelligence

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Titel: Steps towards a therapeutic artificial intelligence
Autoren: Willard McCarty
Quelle: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 49:104-149
Verlagsinformationen: SAGE Publications, 2024.
Publikationsjahr: 2024
Schlagwörter: 05 social sciences, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 02 engineering and technology, 0509 other social sciences
Beschreibung: Whether artificial intelligence might benefit human well-being in every sense is an open question. I consider it in the following essay, first putting to one side standard accounts of ‘official AI’, then deriving an ‘unofficial’ counterpart from the evidence of newspaper accounts and magazine features from ca. 1945–1965. Unsurprisingly, these demonstrate a bending of artificial intelligence to military and industrial purposes, hence the enormity of the impediment to therapeutic applications, but at the same time the evidence leaves no doubt as to the imaginative power of smart machines. Contemporary commentary is brought to bear to move from intimations of a dark future to possibilities for constructing a healthy practice. I conclude with two quite different 21st century examples of a way towards it.
Publikationsart: Article
Sprache: English
ISSN: 1743-2790
0308-0188
DOI: 10.1177/03080188241233129
Rights: CC BY NC
Dokumentencode: edsair.doi...........036be1bc63d678cf4e9b4d3a13995f0e
Datenbank: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:Whether artificial intelligence might benefit human well-being in every sense is an open question. I consider it in the following essay, first putting to one side standard accounts of ‘official AI’, then deriving an ‘unofficial’ counterpart from the evidence of newspaper accounts and magazine features from ca. 1945–1965. Unsurprisingly, these demonstrate a bending of artificial intelligence to military and industrial purposes, hence the enormity of the impediment to therapeutic applications, but at the same time the evidence leaves no doubt as to the imaginative power of smart machines. Contemporary commentary is brought to bear to move from intimations of a dark future to possibilities for constructing a healthy practice. I conclude with two quite different 21st century examples of a way towards it.
ISSN:17432790
03080188
DOI:10.1177/03080188241233129