Católica professor publishes article on Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with SACRU
William Hasselberger, professor at Institute for Political Studies, of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Micah Lott, co-chairs of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities (SACRU), an association of which UCP is a founding member, have published the article "Where lies the grail. AI, common sense, and human practical intelligence", in the journal Phenomenology and Cognitive Science.
For the authors, "the creation of machines with intelligence comparable to human beings - so-called 'human-level' and 'general' intelligence - is often considered the Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research".
But with this essay dedicated to AI, William Hasselberger and Micah Lott aim "to bring into view some underappreciated features of the practical intelligence involved in ordinary human agency".
According to the authors, if their analysis is confirmed, "also has implications for the important ethical question of what it means to have AI systems that are aligned with human values, or the so-called “value alignment” problem for artificial intelligence".
Director of the Digital Ethics Laboratory (LED) at UCP, William Hasselberger, dedicates his research to the areas of moral and political philosophy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and technological ethics, the psychology of ethical virtue and human well-being, as well as the philosophy of spirit and action.