Interrogating artificial agency

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Can artificial systems act? In the literature we find two camps: sceptics and believers. But the issue of whether artificial systems can act and, if so, how, has not been systematically discussed. This is a foundational question for the philosophy of AI. I sketch a methodological approach to investigating the agency of artificial systems from architectural and behavioural perspectives.

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• agency
• action
• Turing test
• ChatGPT