Reconsidering agency in the age of AI

Schreiber, Gerhard

doi:10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.5.5

Reconsidering agency in the age of AI

Publication date

2024-05-15

Document type

Forschungsartikel

Author

Schreiber, Gerhard

Organisational unit

Evangelische Theologie u.b.B. der Sozial- und Technikethik

DOI

10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.5.5

URI

https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/handle/10.24405/22816

Publisher

Slovak Academy of Sciences

Series or journal

Filozofia

ISSN

0046-385X

Periodical volume

79

Periodical issue

5

First page

529

Last page

537

Part of the university bibliography

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Language

English

Abstract

The expansive development of AI technologies challenges our conventional understanding of agency, which has traditionally been anchored in the human capacity for autonomous action and decision-making. As human-AI interactions become increasingly complex, the boundary between human and machine agency is continuously breached, prompting a reconsideration of the concept of agency as potentially no longer a human proprium. This paper offers preliminary reflections on the prerequisites and conditions for a post-anthropocentric theory of agency in the age of AI, beginning with a historical reconstruction and conceptual validation of the evolving notion of agency.

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