A distorted world
A final metaphor for understanding AI, particularly relevant, comes from Shannon Vallor, professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. In his essay AI Mirrorit invites us to consider AI as a mirror… but similar to that of Anish Kapoor’s sculptures: which gives us a reflection of our world, certainly, but distorted.
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This highlights a crucial point about these AIs: it would be a mistake to believe that they give us a faithful, objective, perfectly rational image of our world and the responses we must provide to it. No, on the contrary; they are riddled with more or less explicit or hidden underlying biases. Vallor is not at all “anti AI” but it wants reasoned use of it: AI models dedicated to specific themes, well defined, equipped with safeguards, tested, and justified from a moral and environmental point of view .
As for general AIs, which have an answer to everything on every subject, she warns us by calling on the myth of Narcissus: to absorb ourselves in the dialogue with the AI, is that not our part? distorted image with which we fall in love, to the point of losing ourselves in it?
