Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In the article, a thought experiment is conducted to assess the significance of Michel Foucault?s thought in the confrontation with the challenges posed by the usage of AI technology for the self in the academic world and global society. The same set of questions is posed to the author and to three popular AI engines used by subjects in the academic and global digitalized social environment. General questions about discourse production, power relations, technologies of the self in academia and globally are paired with a set of specific questions concerning Foucault today, his possible take on the AI problem, the fictive contemporary debate between Foucault and Chomsky, and the meaning of truth. The results are presented and compared, exemplifying both advantages and shortcomings of human and AI answers. The conclusion offers a balance between an overly skeptical and overly enthusiastic evaluation of AI-aided technologies of the self in the academic and broader social environment, as well as an evaluation of Foucaut?s philosophical quest.
Source: Sociologija
DOI: 10.2298/soc2404581p
Author: Kresimir Petkovic
Institution: University of Zagreb
Language: English
Topic: Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406477914