Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2015-2016)
Time: Friday May 20, 14h-16h Place: *room **D.1.07**, *building D, VUB ------------------------------ How to train a human: the social systems’ guide for AI and other potentially superintelligent systems that might be interested Marta Lenartowicz <https://vub.academia.edu/MartaLenartowicz> (ECCO, GBI) Abstract: The theory of the global brain presents a view of the world, in which all processes are getting simultaneously ever more intelligent and ever more interwoven with each other. If so, the technological processes carried out by software and machines, the societal processes run by symbolic codes and interactions, the psychological processes of the human minds, and the biological processes of the biosphere and its organisms, are bound to increasingly serve as each other’s vehicles. If various loci of agency, including the AI, are to grow in intelligence, they will continuously improve their ability to turn other modalities into means of their own continuity and thriving. We, people, excel in that ability - and we plan to keep expanding it further (e.g. via technological developments and the “meme editing” of the social systems). However, the human being is not the only locus of agency capable of employing and exploiting other diverse modalities. As it has been demonstrated (Luhmann 1996, 2012, 2012a; Lenartowicz, Weinbaum & Braaten 2015; Lenartowicz 2016) human social systems, understood as self-organising symbol-constituted agents, are quite skilled in this respect as well. The capital, corporations, religions, states, institutions, paradigms, worldviews, and other “creatures of the semiosphere” excel in particular in making use of the modality aggregatively called “the human”. That modality, constituted of our own thoughts, desires, speech, movements, appearances, and actions, is typically assumed (as prompted by many worldviews) to be fully governed by the human beings (selves) - but this assumption is wrong. The several millennia of the evolutionary selective pressure exerted on the fast reproducing, fast spreading “semiotic species” have equipped it with a wide repertoire of memetic configurations, which are capable of turning our minds into the means of their own perpetuation. In fact, if an individuating AI wanted to start exploiting the human modality for its own purposes, it would not have to invent the way - it should turn to the Luhmannian social systems for an advice. Especially so, if that AI was embodied as an distributed, multimodal system. In my seminar I will attempt to sketch the main “teaching points”, which would most likely be included in the lesson. From the human perspective, I think they are worth knowing. References Lenartowicz M. 2016. Creatures of the Semiosphere: A problematic third party in the “humans plus technology” cognitive architecture of the future global superintelligence. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (In press) Lenartowicz, M., Weinbaum, D.R. (Weaver) & Braathen, P., 2015. Social systems: complex adaptive loci of cognition. ECCO Working paper 2015-10 Luhmann N. 1996. Social Systems. Stanford: Stanford University Press Luhmann N. 2002. Theories of Distinction. Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press Luhmann N. 2012. Theory of Society. Vol 1. Stanford: Stanford University Press Luhmann N. 2012a. Theory of Society. Vol 2. Stanford: Stanford University Press ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 27* Vincenzo De Florio A behavioral framework for the discussion of resilience, elasticity, and antifragility *June 3 * Viktoras Veitas *June 10 * David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) *June 17* Nathalie Mezza-Garcia See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
