Narratives of Artificial Intelligence, the Religions of Modernity, & the Future of Human-computer Interaction

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· 발행기관 : 원광대학교 종교문제연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 韓國宗敎 / 53권 / 7 ~ 36페이지
· 저자명 : Robert, M. Geraci

초록

As the progress and development of hi-tech technologies and sciences such as artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and so on, has been so rapid and revolutionary, our civilizational discourse on the future has unfold only on the basis of scientific discourses. Althougdlldlmany are worried about the future of religions in this context, this article argues that the development of artificial intelligence is not purely scientific and materialistic, disconnected from humanistic discourses, but that it rather has been inextricably entangled with humanist ideas. Keeping in mind D. Chakravarty’s idea of privincializing Europe, this article elucidates that the Western discourse of artificial intelligence has been heavily dependent upon that of apocalypse and that the development of the transhumanist discourse especially has been orbited around this Western feature of apocalypse. However, the development of science these days is not confined to the Western world, and thus Indian scientists program the progress of artificial intelligence on the basis of their own Indian culture. For example, Indian scientists can understand Artificial Intelligence as Kalki, the avatar of Vishnu, which will return to the Earth to start the whole process over again. While, Japanese scientist can understand A.I. as part of kami, which is the sacred existing in all forms of beings living and nonliving. In this way, scientist in Asia can more easily understand the symbiosis of human and machine, of human and artificial intelligence, than the Western. Asian cultures have developed deep thoughts on swaraj (self-mastery or self-rule) or compassion based upon their idea of non-self. Thus, if one can refer to diverse cultural ideas and discourses including Asian insights in the development of artificial intelligence, instead of exclusively relying upon the Western confrontational/conflictual model of apocalypse, one can orient the future development of sciences and technologies including artificial intelligence in a better way.

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