Mark Coeckelbergh is a Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna. He is co-author of “Communicative AI: A critical introduction to large language models” as well as the author of “Why AI Undermines Our Democracy: and what to do about it.”
In our interview, we discuss how AI will affect the job of journalists and authors. How he as a professor evaluates essays, which could be written with the help of ChatGPT. I also ask him how students should prepare for a world in which AI replaces all the entry-level jobs. Later in the interview, we discuss how AI undermines our ability to learn and therefore undermines our ability to participate in the democratic process.
8:26: The importance of learning how to write
11:07: Embracing ChatGPT means having to learn how to evaluate the output
12:13: The future of authorship and writing
15:15: What post-structuralism teaches us about authorship
19:09: What should college students do to be successful if entry-level research or assistant jobs are taken over by AI?
21:59: The content AI is being trained on. What happens if it’s all based on books published before 1923?
27:00: How does AI affect our democracy?
28:00: AI is perpetuating the inability to think critically.
30:00: The combination of AI and social media
31:54: AI undermines the principles on which democracy is founded: tolerance and freedom.
34:00: How are the economics driving the development of AI?
37:00: The content AI is trained on.
38:53: What are the concerns around the biases that AI currently has?
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