05.08.2024New Publication: «Experts or Authorities? The Strange Case of the Presumed Epistemic Superiority of Artificial Intelligence Systems»

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article by Andrea Ferrario, Alberto Termine and Alessandro Facchini in Minds and Machines.

Title: "Experts or Authorities? The Strange Case of the Presumed Epistemic Superiority of Artificial Intelligence Systems"

Summary: In this paper, the authors address the attribution of epistemological expertise and authority to AI. They show that AI , including large language models, cannot epistemic experts and, based on virtue epistemology, can only hold weak authority in certain contexts. These results have significant implications for the normative expectations in human-AI interactions. Finally, they authors argue that distribution cognition theory helps framing the emergence of expertise and authority in human-AI interactions. This framework suggests that hybrid human-AI agents are the appropriate subjects for such discussions on expertise and authority in knowledge domains.
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