Artificial intelligence is freeing people from more and more tasks. What should be delegated, and what should not? The distinction between human and artificial intelligence aims to develop criteria for the success of hybrid life forms that will emerge between humans and artificial systems in the future. This is because human flourishing in these forms of life will depend on people having an understanding of the fields of activity and influence in which they do not want to forego experiences of practical self-awareness, or more precisely: of self-causality (authorship in thinking), self-empowerment (sovereignty in thinking), and self-efficacy (communicative resonance of thinking).
The network explores cognitive activities whose practice, through the human way of living life, is significant for experiences of practical self-awareness. In doing so, the network limits itself to examining a specific type of activity that, ex hypothesi, fulfills the aforementioned criterion. This involves the activity of human orientation in life situations and in relation to life as a whole: according to the research hypothesis, experiences of self-causality, self-empowerment, and self-efficacy are important to people in the exercise of this activity because they enable them to be self-aware of what is important to them in life.
Lead: Magnus Schlette, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
Participants: Christine Abbt, Kathi Beier, Thomas Fuchs, Michael Hampe, Ana Honnacker, Matthias Jung, Markus Kleinert, Annika von Lüpke, Sabine Marienberg, Olaf Müller, Thoms Wabel.
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