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Istina i veštačka inteligencija: prema novoj hermeneutici akademskog subjekta
The Truth and AI Towards a New Hermeneutic of the Academic Subject

Author(s): Krešimir Petković
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: Foucault; AI; truth; subject; technologies of the self

Summary/Abstract: In the article, a thought experiment is conducted to assess thesignificance of Michel Foucault’s thought in the confrontation with the challengesposed by the usage of AI technology for the self in the academic world and globalsociety. The same set of questions is posed to the author and to three popular AIengines used by subjects in the academic and global digitalized social environment.General questions about discourse production, power relations, technologies of theself in academia and globally are paired with a set of specific questions concerningFoucault today, his possible take on the AI problem, the fictive contemporary debatebetween Foucault and Chomsky, and the meaning of truth. The results are presentedand compared, exemplifying both advantages and shortcomings of human and AIanswers. The conclusion offers a balance between an overly skeptical and overlyenthusiastic evaluation of AI-aided technologies of the self in the academic andbroader social environment, as well as an evaluation of Foucaut’s philosophical quest.

  • Issue Year: 66/2024
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 581-611
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: English
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