Year: 2024
Type: editorial
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a major tool in management and business, operating on a global scale and across cultural contexts.The question of whether or not artificial intelligence is culturally intelligent necessitates addressing a number of connected issues: who creates and controls AI, who creates the narratives around AI and how is it represented, whether AI can think for itself, and whether AI has values.Artificial intelligence, and the narratives about it are becoming part of our culture(s).As a technology that is being developed within particular socio-cultural contexts, used strategically in global business, and imported to other, different cultural contexts, the way it is used, and the impact it has across cultural contexts and different societal groups should be of interest to cross-cultural management scholars.Before addressing the specific question, we need to be clear on what artificial intelligence is, and what it is not.AI is a tool.It is not an end in itself.The dangers expressed of AI as an existential threat appear to be related to a concern that AI could become an end in itself.This of course is reflected in (English speaking) popular cinema and literature such as Asimov's I, Robot; Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and Ishigura's Klara and the Sun, often begging the question is it possible to be intelligent without being sentient?Apparently, this is not just the stuff of fiction.A number of leaders in AI got together last year and signed the statement: Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.(Centre for AI Safety, 2023)
Author: Terence Jackson
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4399667404