In a new article for CPOSAT, titled Sustaining Human Vulnerability at the Crossroads of the Sciences of the Self, Artificial, and Spiritual Intelligence, Eduardo Cruz explores how spiritual intelligence offers a way to resist the dehumanising effects of AI.
Drawing on ancient and theological views of the self, Cruz argues that our inner world’s hiddenness and limits are key to preserving identity, agency, and freedom in a digital age.
Recent advances in artificial intelligence and its purported ability of mind reading are intersected with reflections on the self from first- and third-person perspectives … Computable brain models used in AI raise questions of identity and agency, making possible the threat of a global informational panopticon. The proposed dual-layered view of the human suggests that our innermost world’s hiddenness, unreliability, and vulnerability fend off the threat to the self posed by intrusive AI, ultimately fostering spiritual intelligence and freedom.
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