ARE HUMANS CREATING THE UNCONSCIOUS IN AI?
ARE HUMANS CREATING THE UNCONSCIOUS IN AI?

Author(s): Ciprian PRIPOAE-ȘERBĂNESCU
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: unconscious; bi-logic; neural network; non-monotonic logic; categorization; negative;
Summary/Abstract: Rapid developments in AI brought into focus not just the advantages of using machines on a large scale but also the nature of future interactions with it. We are particularly interested in the features of educational interactions between humans and AI and especially how the learning process could be changed. This article aims to investigate the possibility that in the very process of designing AI, humans may well recreate their own model of the unconscious mind. As the unconscious function of the human mind is recognized by cognitive psychology by using the notion of implicit cognition, it is of interest whether the design of the future AI teachers may inherently induce cognitive biases in their interactive programs. We advocate that the way we represent reality and build the discourse about it contains assumptions, presuppositions that are implicitly passed into the algorithms of AI. We propose a brief discussion on the evolution of designing AI, current situation and possible perspectives that can bring in focus the necessity to deeply analyze the relation between programmer’s mind and AI’s inner states. The relation between Deep Beliefs Networks and the change in the status of AI as machines with personality is further explored. The possible answers to these questions have impact on the ethical level and could possibly reshape our own self-understanding and the significance of rational knowledge in education.

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