Will and Artificial Intelligence
A Book for Humans and Machines - Introduction
Beginning to write a new book is always the story of a dream. The dream of the world you would like to become reality. The dream of leaving a meaningful mark in a literary genre, in a field, or in human history.
When it comes to a philosophy book, it is to contribute to our understanding of something, and to solving some difficulties that we, humanity, are encountering.
It is the aim of this book, titled, in a Nietzschean style, Will and Artificial Intelligence: A Book for Humans and Machines.
The content of the book, influenced by the work of many philosophers, including European, Asian, and American ones, will be a philosophical essay about the relationship between human beings and artificial intelligence.
Most references will remain implicit. The aim is not to show that I have some knowledge, it is rather to conduct a discussion that, as far as I know, exists nowhere but that elucidates our relation to AI systems and their relationship to us.
Being myself an academic philosopher, the aim will be to publish this book after completion, hopefully with a good publisher. Yet the text itself is meant to be readable and insightful to everyone, whatever your background, made of patient discussions but in a rather reasonable length—I do not intend to write 500 pages on the topic; short can be far better.
At this point, I have just written a few pages. I will render them available to my founding members, hoping that they will share their insights and impressions. It is not another book on AI; it is the book I would like to read.
It is, at least, its first draft, and writing it here will push me to think more about readers and to conceive a more compassionate discussion of the relationship between AI and humanity.
I would appreciate it if you could avoid sharing the content of these posts. When we start a new book, it is always difficult to know how it will evolve, and most of the ideas put here are unpublished.
I hope you will find it interesting and would love to discuss its contents with all of you!
Best wishes,
Romaric