What’s the Message of European Regulation about the Philosophical Questions surrounding Artificial Intelligence?
Abstract
The starting point of the study is that the EU’s regulatory framework on artificial intelligence adopts a position on issues that are also significant from a philosophical standpoint, such as the nature of intelligence or technology as a tool. Accordingly, the study examines the philosophical preconditions for the attribution of rights. The study's key finding is that the EU – despite legally classifying the machine as intelligent – does not grant legal recognition at any level to machine pattern-recognition algorithms designated as artificial intelligence. The study concludes that this paradox may constitute a form of "AI washing" and that the conceptual assumption of reality may serve profit interests, to which European regulation has offered no substantive resistance.
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