Part One: Before ChatGPT 1. An Ontological Problem of Anti-Existence 2. Near-term Concerns and Long-term Considerations about Artificial Intelligence: “An Upgrade of Existence” 3. How Could AI Self-Consciousness Be Possible? 4. A Human Problem or an Artificial Intelligence Problem? — Response to the Berggruen Institute’s Questions about Artificial Intelligence 5. The Legitimate Limits of the Future 6. Good Things Can Be More Deadly Than Bad Things Part Two: The ChatGPT Era 7. The Epistemological Problems AI Returns to Humanity 8. The Self-reflexivity of Consciousness: Knower and Maker 9. Imagining a New Enlightenment: Verb-based Thinking and the Infinite Library
Biography
Zhao Tingyang is a professor in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, CASS. He is also a member of the Academic Committee of the European Institute for Cross-Cultural Studies and a senior researcher at the Berggruen Institute in the US. His research focuses on metaphysics, political philosophy, and ethics; he has put forward such original theories as the “Tianxia System Theory”, “Co-existence Ontology”, and “Vortex Theory”.
