Digital Humanism and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 71-75

Author(s):

Julian Nida-Rümelin

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Central Argument

AbstractThis chapter is programmatic in style and content. It describes some patterns and one central argument of that, what I take as the view of digital humanism and which we exposed in our book (Nida-Rümelin and Weidenfeld 2018). The central argument regards the critique of strong and weak AI. This chapter does not discuss the logical and metaphysical aspects of digital humanism that I take to be part of the broader context of the theory of reason (Nida-Rümelin 2020, Chaps. VI and VII).

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Artificial Intelligence and the 2020 Municipal Elections in Brazil

International Journal of Business Administration ◽

10.5430/ijba.v11n5p1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus ◽

Adriane Figueirola Buarque de Holanda

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Social Networks ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Fake News ◽

Municipal Elections ◽

The Poor ◽

Central Argument ◽

Legal Space ◽

Robust Regulation

The main purpose is to examine the possible role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the uncertain context of the 2020 municipal elections in Brazil. The central argument indicates that, regardless of when the elections are held, the COVID-19 pandemic opened spaces for candidates to build their political platforms on the initiatives to combat the disease, but also the opportunity for the dissemination of fake news and profiles regarding the spread of the new coronavirus and social distancing and quarantine measures with political purposes. The electoral discourse has increasingly used technologies and data such as voters’ concerns, preferences, and oppositions, collected on social networks through AI. New data-based technologies can give rise to an unreal, induced, forged public opinion, in the same way that they can bring greater possibilities of discernment to the voter. The situation requires a more robust regulation for AI, but there are still many unregulated aspects and obstacles for the implementation of an effective regulation of online activities in Brazil, such as the poor adaptation of the legal space to highly volatile phenomena.

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