1st Edition
AI and Common Sense Ambitions and Frictions
Introductory comment
When artificial intelligence meets common sense, frictions will arise
Martin W. Bauer and Bernard Schiele
Part 1: The scene and the argument of common sense: What is common sense, and how did AI enter the debate so far
1 AI with common sense: What concept of common sense?
Martin W. Bauer
2 Self-awareness and common sense – The paradox of AI: A dispassionate look
Alexandre Schiele and Bernard Schiele
Part 2: Egocentric common sense: AI with additional features: AI with common sense, or the social psychology of normalisation
3 Giving AI some common sense
Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque
4 Human interaction with robots
Philippe Fauquet-Alekhine
5 Towards robots with common sense
Alan F.T. Winfield
6 Common sense, artificial intelligence and psychology
Laura Bartlett
Part 3: Inter-subjective common sense: public discourse: AI in common sense, the public discourse and its functions, the social psychology of assimilation
7 Giambattista Vico’s dialogical common sense
Ivana Markova
8 The A-sociability of AI: Knowledge, social interactions and the dynamics of common sense
Bernard Schiele and Alexandre Schiele
9 Exploring the common wisdom on artificial intelligence and its political consequences: The case of Germany
Frank Marcinkowski and Florian Golo Flaßoff
10 Associations of AI and common sense in the news
Anouk de Jong and Anne M. Dijkstra
11 Meanwhile in Japan: The possibility of techhno-animism for engaging deliberation for emerging technology
Mikihito Tanaka
Part 4: Unsettling or highlighting common sense?: AI against common sense and the social psychology of accommodation: common sense challenged by AI and challenging the emergent technology
12 Common-sense attributions of AI agency: Evidence from an experiment with ChatGPT
Fabian Anicker and Florian Golo Flaßhoff
13 The challenges and opportunities in large language models: Navigating the perils of stochastic and scholastic parrots in artificial understanding and common sense
Ahmet Süerdem
14 Artificial intelligence in personnel selection: Reactions of researchers, practitioners and applicants
Adrian Bangerter
15 Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) and common sense
Chris Tennant
Part 5: Conclusion
16 AI goes to the movies: Fast, intermediate and slow common sense
Bernard Schiele and Martin W. Bauer
Biography
Martin W. Bauer is Professor of Social Psychology and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He investigates "common sense" in relation to science and emerging technologies in the international MACAS (Mapping the Cultural Authority of Science) network. He is a Fellow of the German National Academy of Technical Sciences (acatech). Recent publications include The Psychology of Social Influence: Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense (2021, with Gordon Sammut); Atom, Bytes & Genes: Public Resistance and Techno-scientific Responses (2015).
Bernard Schiele (PhD) is a Professor of Communications in the Faculty of Communication at the University of Québec at Montréal (Canada). He has been working for a number of years on the socio-dissemination of S&T. Among other books he has recently published are Science Communication Today (2015, with Joëlle Le Marec and Patrick Baranger); Communicating Science, A Global Perspective (2020 with Toss Gascoigne and colleagues); Science Culture in a Diverse World: Knowing, Sharing, Caring (2021, with Xuan Liu and Martin Bauer); Le musée dans la société [The Museum in Society] (2021), and Science Communication: Taking a Step Back to Move Forward (2023, with Martin Bauer).
