- ABOUT US -
DILARA BOGA
I (she/they) am a third-year PhD student in Philosophy at the Central European University (Vienna).
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I believe clarification of what is fundamental to human agency is crucial for greater understanding of ontological and moral status of AIs. In my dissertation, I will bring in philosophy of science, in particular the evolution of cooperation and sociality. I argue that cooperation is fundamental to moral agency. It is no surprise that cultures consider cooperative behaviour as 'morally good'. So, to be able to have social interactions with humans, AIs need to have moral expressions of themselves (such as social emotions) to signal cooperative or competitive behaviour; otherwise, AIs are likely to be perceived as just moral 'tools', rather than moral 'agents', and they cannot be trusted. The outcomes of AIs can be consistent and reliable but AIs cannot be responsible for these outcomes, since real trust between two moral agents requires their ability to 'choose'. I claim that current AIs lack the ability to 'choose' for themselves (what I call 'moral choice') because they do not have self-interest as a reaction to the collective interest.
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In my free time, I love drawing and writing short stories.