French philosopher Gaspard Koenig fears that AI will destroy individuals' free will—so we must fight back OpenFuture
As artificial intelligence makes its way to all areas of life, the most prominent people aiming to explain the technology and translate it for the public tend to be scientists, businessmen and often, Americans. Gaspard Koenig is different. A French philosopher, he runs GenerationLibre, a think-tank that promotes classical liberal values of individual freedom. And he brings vibrant intellectual energy to the debate.
The central question of AI is not superintelligence or the end of work but the capacity of AI to render autonomous judgments, as society delegates more decisions to the machine. It is a renunciation of the concept of free will and it reflects, in effect, a new scientific consensus that stretches from psychology and neuroscience to behavioural economics. Yet it jeopardises the very foundations of liberal societies in terms of law, the economy and of course democracy.
There are different ways to seek happiness based on various ends, which makes it impossible to set a common standard. In his essay on John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin proposes to establish a "right to err" as a corollary of the ability of each person to seek, to transform and to improve oneself. It is surprising that we passively accept this digital feudalism. Doubtless the 12th-century serfs did not think for a minute that they could challenge the rights of a lord under his dais, as sacred as today’s tech entrepreneur on a TED Talk stage. But since everything is accelerating, the revolution might also come faster. I advocate that we establish a property right on personal data, which is something that currently does not exist anywhere in the world, to put an end to this plunder.
As a technology AI undoubtedly represents an advancement, which has been in the making for the past 70 years and can now provide tools for personal emancipation, broadening our horizons. Far from replacing human intelligence, which consists of biological mechanisms deeply ingrained in our flesh and blood, it merely automatises the way our own intellectual outputs are processed.
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