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dc.contributor.authorLeung, King-Ho*
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-21T08:12:24Z
dc.date.available2019-05-21T08:12:24Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-17
dc.identifier.citationLeung, K.-H. (2019). The Picture of Artificial Intelligence and the Secularization of Thought. Political Theology, 20(6), 457-471en_US
dc.identifier.issn1462-317X
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1462317X.2019.1605725
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/622283
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Political Theology on 17-4-19, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2019.1605725en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article offers a critical interpretation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a philosophical notion which exemplifies a secular conception of thinking. One way in which AI notably differs from the conventional understanding of “thinking” is that, according to AI, “intelligence” or “thinking” does not necessarily require “life” as a precondition: that it is possible to have “thinking without life.” Building on Charles Taylor’s critical account of secularity as well as Hubert Dreyfus’ influential critique of AI, this article offers a theological analysis of AI’s “lifeless” picture of thinking in relation to the Augustinian conception of God as “Life itself.” Following this critical theological analysis, this article argues that AI’s notion of thinking promotes a societal privilege of certain rationalistic or calculative ways of thought over more existential or spiritual ways of thinking, and thereby fosters a secularization or de-spiritualization of thinking as an ethical human practice.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2019.1605725en_US
dc.subjectArtificial intelligenceen_US
dc.subjectsecularizationen_US
dc.subjectselfhooden_US
dc.subjectontologyen_US
dc.subjectphilosophy of technologyen_US
dc.titleThe Picture of Artificial Intelligence and the Secularization of Thoughten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1743-1719
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chesteren_US
dc.identifier.journalPolitical Theologyen_US
dc.date.accepted2019
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rioxxterms.versionofrecordhttps://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2019.1605725
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