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The mirror for (artificial) intelligence: Working in whose reflection?

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  • Moore, Phoebe V.

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The mirror for (artificial) intelligence: In whose reflection?' sets out the parameters for caution in considering as-yet relatively un-debated issues in artificial intelligence (AI) research, which is the concept itself of 'intelligence'. After the AI 'winters' ending in the late 1990s, during which AI development met substantive obstacles, a new AI summer commences. What is still missing is a careful consideration of the historical significance of the weighting that has been placed on particular aspects of consciousness and surrounding seemingly human-like workplace behaviour which takes increasing significance given the interest in machinic autonomous intelligence. The discussion paper argues that a series of machinic and technological invention and related experiments show how machines facilitate not only the processes of normalization of what are considered intelligent behaviours, via both human and machinic intelligence, but also facilitate and enable the integration of autonomous machines into everyday work and life. Today, ideas of autonomous machinic intelligence, seen in the ways AI-augmented tools and applications in human resources, robotics, and gig work are incorporated into workplaces, facilitate workplace relations via machinic intelligent behaviours, that are explicitly assistive, prescriptive, descriptive, collaborative, predictive and affective. The question is, given these now autonomous forms of intelligence attributed to machines, who/what is looking in the mirror at whose/which reflection?

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  • Moore, Phoebe V., 2019. "The mirror for (artificial) intelligence: Working in whose reflection?," Discussion Papers, Research Group Globalization, Work, and Production SP III 2019-302, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:wzbgwp:spiii2019302
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    Keywords

    Cybernetics; Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Autonomous Machines; Workplace Relations; Human-Machine interaction; History of Technology; Kybernetik; Künstliche Intelligenz; Robotik; Autonome Maschinen; Beziehungen am Arbeitsplatz; Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion; Innovationsgeschichte;
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    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions
    • L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development

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