{"id":2998,"date":"2024-06-26T14:52:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2024-08-15T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:39:21","slug":"ai-alan-turing-and-stanley-cavell-insights-by-marie-t-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/2024\/06\/26\/ai-alan-turing-and-stanley-cavell-insights-by-marie-t-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, Alan Turing, and Stanley Cavell: Insights by Marie T. O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marie Theresa O\u2019Connor recently published an article in <em>Minds and Machines<\/em> entitled, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11023-024-09676-y\">\u201cIn the Craftsman\u2019s Garden: AI, Alan Turing, and Stanley Cavell.\u201d<\/a> This article focuses on rising skepticism about the nature of so-called black box AI, meaning AI whose processes are unknown even to their creators, and takes up the larger question of how we should respond to a speaker when we\u2019re unsure about what\u2019s inside. When is it okay, for instance, to understand the phrases \u201cplease stop\u201d or \u201cplease respect my boundaries\u201d as meaning something other than what those phrases ordinarily mean and what makes it so? If we ignore denials of consent, or put them in scare quotes, we should have a good reason. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Connor\u2019s article focuses on two thinkers, Stanley Cavell and Alan Turing, whose work suggests that there may not be a good reason to ignore denials of consent by machines that make us wonder what\u2019s inside. &nbsp;Instead, \u201cI\u2019m not sure\u201d may be a more appropriate answer, even if the implications of that answer may feel embarrassing to adopt in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Theresa O\u2019Connor recently published an article in Minds and Machines entitled, \u201cIn the Craftsman\u2019s Garden: AI, Alan Turing, and Stanley Cavell.\u201d This article focuses on rising skepticism about the nature of so-called black box AI, meaning AI whose processes are unknown even to their creators, and takes up the larger question of how we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":561,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[162,191,223,224,225],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-ai","tag-philosophy","tag-consent","tag-turing","tag-cavell"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}