Free Will and Artificial Intelligence

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2018-12-30

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Zambak, Aziz Fevzi

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Abstract: Free will is one of the main challenges against artificial intelligence. Free will is considered to be one of the unique characteristics of human being which cannot be represented in any artificial intelligent system. Free will is a special issue in the philosophy of mind. There are two main approaches to free will; namely, compatibilism and incompatibilism. We construct two main compatibilist arguments in order to overcome this challenge and these arguments show that the deterministic and computational structure of machine intelligence does not empirically prevent artificial intelligence from possessing free will. In addition to that, we claim that the agentive action is the only condition for the occurrence and analysis of free will. And these occurrence and analysis conditions can be modelled and simulated in machine intelligence. Therefore, AI can possess the tools through which it can realize its autonomous free choices. Simply stating, AI can have a free will.

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Yapay zeka, Bağdaşırcılık, Özgür istenç, Belirlenimcilik, Bilgisayımsal karar, Artificial intelligence, Compatibilism, Free will, Determinism, Computational decision

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https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/metazihin/issue/41232/494812
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114957

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Department of Philosophy, Article