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Autonomy is an “intrinsically human term”: it is precisely due to the use of this concept that “we attribute [machines] with human-like behaviour that they are not likely to possess in the near future” (Johansen 2018, 95, 90).
“The conceptual metaphor ‘black box’ was originally an engineering term for any…
Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt proposes that every species inhabits a unique “world”…
“An AI system consists of a computational artefact together with the human…
“Frankenstein complex” is Isaac Asimov’s concept for describing “the fear that the…
“The ‘electronic brain’ has proven to be a product of 20th century…
The conception of AI as a Large Technical System (LTS) – system…
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