Ambivalenzen gegenwärtiger Gewissheitsbestrebungen. Menschliche Entscheidungsfreiheit in einer gewisserwerdenden Welt

Tretter M (2023)


Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2023

Publisher: wbg

Edited Volumes: Alexa, wie hast du’s mit der Religion? Interreligiöse Zugänge zu Technik und Künstlicher Intelligenz

Series: Theologie und Künstliche Intelligenz

City/Town: Darmstadt

Pages Range: 135–156

ISBN: 978-3-534-40783-5

Open Access Link: https://files.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/Files/Article/ARTK_ZOA_1030373_0001.pdf

Abstract

One characteristic of the present is its ubiquitous uncertainty. This uncertainty makes it difficult for many people to take decisions. Digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are supposed to remedy this situation by creating certainties and giving people new freedom to make decisions. But how do these techno-generated certainties actually affect human freedom of decision? Drawing on research on digital self-trackers and Jean Baudrillard’s reflections on simulation, this paper argues that digital- and AI-created certainties have ambivalent effects on human freedom of decision. On the one hand, they can increase this freedom by providing some degree of certainty about what to expect from each decision. On the other hand, they tend to reduce the number of options available and thus the freedom of decision. This paper concludes with a theological perspective on these results and provides some guidelines for dealing with certainty-generating technologies.

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APA:

Tretter, M. (2023). Ambivalenzen gegenwärtiger Gewissheitsbestrebungen. Menschliche Entscheidungsfreiheit in einer gewisserwerdenden Welt. In Puzio A; Kunkel N; Klinge H (Eds.), Alexa, wie hast du’s mit der Religion? Interreligiöse Zugänge zu Technik und Künstlicher Intelligenz. (pp. 135–156). Darmstadt: wbg.

MLA:

Tretter, Max. "Ambivalenzen gegenwärtiger Gewissheitsbestrebungen. Menschliche Entscheidungsfreiheit in einer gewisserwerdenden Welt." Alexa, wie hast du’s mit der Religion? Interreligiöse Zugänge zu Technik und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Ed. Puzio A; Kunkel N; Klinge H, Darmstadt: wbg, 2023. 135–156.

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