Computing Machinery and Knowledge

TL;DR

This paper explores whether AI agents can truly possess knowledge, analyzing current AI capabilities and future possibilities from a virtue epistemology perspective, and reflecting on what it means for humans to know.

Contribution

It offers a philosophical analysis of AI knowledge, integrating virtue epistemology with current and future AI development considerations.

Findings

AI can potentially possess knowledge based on virtue epistemology

Current AI systems exhibit some knowledge-like features

Future superintelligent AI may achieve genuine knowledge

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the possibilities for computing machinery, or AI agents, to know and to possess knowledge. This is done mainly from a virtue epistemology perspective and definition of knowledge. However, this inquiry also shed light on the human condition, what it means for a human to know, and to possess knowledge. The paper argues that it is possible for an AI agent to know and examines this from both current state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence as well as from the perspective of what the future AI development might bring in terms of superintelligent AI agents.