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Abstract
Global humanity seems to be at the cusp of a major epochal change. The promise of the Enlightenment 鈥攐f a happy life based on true knowledge of nature and on calculated control of our own predispositions 鈥� has led to mixed results, at best. Caught off-guard, we find our methods too narrow to make sense of the surrounding complexity, our material and intellectual means too limited to deal with emerging dilemmas, our individual biases too strong and our collective will too weak to break out of the impinging mess and chaos. Our 鈥渘atural鈥� intelligence, we are told, is failing us not only in justifying the ends that we pursue, but the means that we apply in getting to those ends. Technology elites want us to delegate our duties and decisions to machines and systems allegedly endowed with 鈥渁rtificial鈥� intelligence, lending the inscrutable hand of AI to the invisible hand of the market. This situation did not emerge out of nowhere; it is the outcome of many centuries of social, economic, and intellectual developments that created the conditions of possibility for its arrival. We could thus ask, 鈥淲hence AI? And why now?鈥� I seek the answer in four 鈥渓ogics鈥� emanating from four modern projects: the rationalist logic of calculation, the capitalism logic of valuation, the colonialist logic of domination, and the postmodernist logic of delegation. This talk focuses on rationalism, whose calculative logic created the intellectual conditions of possibility for the emergence of AI, pushing reason into the background in favor of a narrow instrumental rationality. What alternative logics might be available to counter these trends? I hope to explore this question through collective dialogue and deliberation.