인공지능(AI) 발달과 덕의 관계에 관한 연구 - 아리스토텔레스(Aristotle)의 테크네(technē)를 중심으로 -

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning and characteristics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool in Aristotle’s conception of technē, and to argue that the fundamental orientation of AI ethics is toward the pursuit of the moral learning of AI construed by human virtues. For Ar istotle, technē is understood as a form of intellectual excellence (aretē dianoētikē) and a productive disposition accompanied by true reason (hexis meta logou alēthous poiētikē). It concerns the rational capacity to contrive and deliberate how something may come into being which is capable of either being or not being. Subsequentially, the product of technē is justified by a higher purpose within the hierarchy of goods, which makes technē a means to achieve hierarchical ends. As applied to AI technology, furthermore, Aristotle’s conception of technē enables AI to be regarded as a tool to realize the various purposes of human activities grounded in the highest purpose, to use Aristotle’s word, of happiness (eudaimonia). It is a huge amount of data of human narratives, values, and experiences that AI has learned to be operated, so that hu man virtue to design, produce, and utilize AI is to determine the level of AI and its influence on common life. Therefore, the main task for good and desirable AI is to pay attention to the enhancement of productive excellence as well as the cultivation of moral excellence.

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