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Philosophy is crucial in the age of AI
Philosophy has been instrumental to AI since its inception.
Its job was to prove theorems using propositions from Principia Mathematica, a 1910 a three-volume work by the philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, aiming to reconstruct all of mathematics on one logical foundation. In this spirit, perhaps we can be allowed to propose that, if AI alignment is the serious issue that OpenAI believes it to be, it is not just a technical problem to be solved by engineers or tech companies, but also a social one. The British barrister and author Jamie Susskind, for example, has argued it is time to build a “ digital republic ” – one which ultimately rejects the very political and economic system that has given tech companies so much influence.
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