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“Frankenstein complex” is Isaac Asimov’s concept for describing “the fear that the general public has towards human-made technologies when they invade the realm commonly considered to be God’s domain” (McCauley 2007: 42).
The conception of AI as a Large Technical System (LTS) – system…
Autonomy is an “intrinsically human term”: it is precisely due to the…
“An AI system consists of a computational artefact together with the human…
« The first methods for representing human activities on computers were derived…
Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt proposes that every species inhabits a unique “world”…
“The ‘electronic brain’ has proven to be a product of 20th century…
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