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By George Scialabba
According to the delightful science fiction romance film, Her,
artificial intelligences also socialize, or will before long.1 I imagine
them asking one another at parties, “Are you an agent?” They will not,
of course, be asking about literary representation, but about the
psychological or emotional or moral capacity we commonly call agency.
They’ll be looking to find out whether the AI they’re meeting answers
ultimately to itself or to someone else, whether it can set and change
its own goals, whether it can surprise itself and others. Beings
possessed of agency are autonomous, spontaneous, capable of initiative,
and moved by internal as well as external forces or drives.
full: http://inference-review.com/article/the-difference-it-makes
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