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Philosophy Eats AI

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Philosophy is eating AI: As a discipline, data set, and sensibility, philosophy increasingly determines how digital technologies reason, predict, create, generate, and innovate. The critical enterprise challenge is whether leaders will possess the self-awareness and rigor to use philosophy as a resource for creating value with AI or default to tacit, unarticulated philosophical principles for their AI deployments. Either way — for better and worse — philosophy eats AI. For strategy-conscious executives, that metaphor needs to be top of mind.

While ethics and responsible AI currently dominate philosophy’s perceived role in developing and deploying AI solutions, those themes represent a small part of the philosophical perspectives informing and guiding AI’s production, utility, and use. Privileging ethical guidelines and guardrails undervalues philosophy’s true impact and influence. Philosophical perspectives on what AI models should achieve (teleology), what counts as knowledge (epistemology), and how AI represents reality (ontology) also shape value creation. Without thoughtful and rigorous cultivation of philosophical insight, organizations will fail to reap superior returns and competitive advantage from their generative and predictive AI investments. 

This argument increasingly enjoys both empirical and technical support. ...

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