Computing Machinery and Knowledge
This addresses a philosophical problem for AI researchers and epistemologists, but it is incremental as it builds on existing virtue epistemology frameworks.
The paper tackles the problem of whether computing machinery or AI agents can possess knowledge, arguing that it is possible based on virtue epistemology and current AI capabilities, while also reflecting on human knowledge.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the possibilities for computing machinery, or AI agents, to know and to possess knowledge. This is done mainly from a virtue epistemology perspective and definition of knowledge. However, this inquiry also shed light on the human condition, what it means for a human to know, and to possess knowledge. The paper argues that it is possible for an AI agent to know and examines this from both current state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence as well as from the perspective of what the future AI development might bring in terms of superintelligent AI agents.