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Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence
Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives
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2022
Summary
Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence (AI) acknowledges that human destiny is intimately tied to artificial intelligence. AI already outperforms a person on most tasks. Our ever-deepening relationship with an AI that is increasingly autonomous mirrors our relationship to what is perceived as Sacred or Divine. Like God, AI awakens hope and fear in people, while giving life to some and taking livelihood, especially in the form of jobs, from others. AI, built around values of convenience, productivity, speed, efficiency, and cost reduction, serve humanity poorly, especially in moments that demand care and wisdom. This book explores the pastoral virtues of hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as foundational to personal flourishing, communal thriving, and building a robust AI. Biases of determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy within AI's algorithms are identified. These biases can be minimized through the incorporation of pastoral virtues as values guiding AI.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4045-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4046-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
252
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Artificial Intelligence—A Brief Introduction No access
AI or Artificial Intelligences? No access
AI as Sacred No access
Collapsology—A New Discipline Born from Fear No access
Why Pastoral Virtues? And for Whom? No access
The Journey to Unfold No access
When People Hope No access
Hope: A Brief Exploration of a Pastoral Virtue No access
Gabriel Marcel’s Hope for a People on the Move No access
Jürgen Moltmann’s Hope as an Adventus Moment No access
Rick Snyder’s Hope of Inspired Agency and Creative Pathways No access
Hope’s Opposites No access
AI, Hope, Fear, and Inequalities No access
AI’s Bias of Determinism No access
Hope: A Brief Checklist for Code Writers and AI Builders No access
The Art of Hoping No access
Hoping, Waiting, and Hurrying No access
Patience as a Sacred Quality No access
Patience Points to Ultimate Concerns No access
How Shall We Define Patience? No access
Patience, Power, and Time No access
AI and the Bias of Speed No access
Patience: A Brief Checklist for Code Writers and AI Builders No access
Ripening Like a Tree No access
What Is Play? No access
Play as a Pastoral Virtue No access
Engaging the Symbolic No access
Play—Using and Containing Power No access
Play—Always Relational No access
Play as Preoccupation and Letting Go No access
AI and the Bias of Objectivity No access
Play: A Brief Checklist for Code Writers and AI Builders No access
Possibility Thinking for AI No access
From Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom No access
Wisdom—A Prized Ancient Virtue No access
Contemporary Schools of Wisdom No access
Wisdom’s Tacit Dimension No access
The Importance of Wisdom-Inquiry No access
Toward a Wise AI No access
AI and the Bias of Ignorance No access
Wisdom: A Brief Checklist for Code Writers and AI Builders No access
The Wisdom of Learned Ignorance No access
The Golden Rule as an Undeveloped Ethic No access
Compassion Is a Divine Trait No access
Being Moved into Action by Suffering No access
Varieties of Emotional Sharing No access
Nurturing Compassionate Persons No access
Compassion Overcoming Mal De Ojo No access
Toward a Compassionate AI No access
AI and the Bias of Apathy No access
Compassion: A Brief Checklist for Code Writers and AI Builders No access
Compassion Is Self-Evident No access
Pastoral Virtues to Guide Care and Overcome Biases within AI No access
Fear and Flourishing in the Second Machine Age No access
