Alan Turing: Artificial intelligence as human self‐knowledge |
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| Authors: | Ting Guo |
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| Institution: | Postdoctoral Fellow of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University. Trained in religious studies and anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, she previously worked for the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at Oxford. She is interested in philosophy of religion, and the constitution of faith in social, cultural and political dynamics. She can be reached at @tingguowrites and http://ting902.com. |
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| Abstract: | This article explores the life and ideas of Alan Turing (1912–1954), commonly known as the father of artificial intelligence (AI), and highlights the process whereby the human self is reconceptualized in the development of Turing's ideas of machine intelligence. I will further illustrate how this process of self‐reconceptualization – composed of the pursuit, adaptation and transformation of self‐knowledge – is closely related to contemporary digital life. In doing so, I wish to reveal the ways in which Turing's underlying self‐transforming agenda of AI can contribute to our understanding of the human self, for AI, as I will argue, leads to questions of existence and existential anxieties. |
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