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Theopolis Monk: Envisioning a Future of A.I. Public Service

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Visions of future applications of artificial intelligence (AI) tend to veer toward the naively optimistic or frighteningly dystopian, neglecting the numerous human factors necessarily involved in the design, deployment and oversight of such systems. The dream that AI systems may somehow replace the irregularities and struggles of human governance with unbiased efficiency is seen to be non-scientific and akin to a religious hope, whereas the current trajectory of AI development indicates that it will increasingly serve as a tool by which humans exercise control over other humans. To facilitate the responsible development of AI systems for the public good, we discuss current conversations on the topics of transparency and accountability.

“The technician sees the nation quite differently from the political man: to the technician, the nation is nothing more than another sphere in which to apply the instruments he has developed.”

—Robert Merton, Forward to the English edition of Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society, 1964.

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The author wishes to thank the following for helpful discussions: Michael Burdett, William Hooper, Tommy Kessler, Stan Rosenberg, Andy Watts, Miles Brundage, Beth Singler, Andreas Theodorou, Robert Wortham, Joanna Bryson, Micah Redding and Nathan Griffith. This work was sponsored by a grant given by Bridging the Two Cultures of Science and the Humanities II, a project run by Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO), the UK subsidiary of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, with funding by Templeton Religion Trust and The Blankemeyer Foundation.​​

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