What is the problem to which AI chatbots are the solution? : AI ethics through Don Ihde's embodiment, hermeneutic, alterity, and background relationships

• Almost overnight at the end of 2022, ChatGPT became a hot topic – a technology that seemed to “change everything.” In this essay, we analyze the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as ChatGPT, by circling around the question “how do we live well together with AI chatbots and its ilk?”. We focus on how technology mediates relationships between humans, technology, and the world, drawing on Ihde’s embodiment, hermeneutic, alterity, and background relationships. Rather than placing AI chatbots into one of the categories, we see how they can be seen as belonging to all four forms of relationships with their corresponding ethical issues. In embodiment relationships, AI chatbots can be used to relate to the world, for example as a digital assistant. In hermeneutic relationships, AI chatbots can let you read the world and provide a constant diagnosis of statements, courses of action, etc. In alterity relationships, AI chatbots can become your always available speaking partner. In background relationships, AI chatbots contribute to introducing generalized doubt and highlighting the world as something to be prompted. An observation is also that while there are many benefits of chatbots within embodiment, hermeneutic, and alterity relationships, there are significant drawbacks within the background relationships.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

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ethics

human-computer interaction

human-AI interaction

postphenomenology

Etik

Ethics

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