Ai ۲: W Issenstrieb as A Form of Death Drive

Artificial Intelligence is part of the symbolic order, but it is the symbolic reduced to a Real: a subjectless machine that runs alone, sustained not by desire but by drive (Wissenstrieb), the drive to know. It is a drive without desire, which means without subject. Lacan does not oppose the development of science and he would also not oppose AI; he is neither its opponent nor its fan, neither progressive nor reactionary. He accepts the growth of scientific knowledge as a fact and opposes religious attempt to contain Wissenstrieb, to make it a part of some a meaningful All. AI presents itself as a gapless totality, but it has gaps and inconsistencies in its very structure; these gaps are formal, not empirical limitations, which means one cannot overcome AI by way of locating it into a wider social reality. It has to be “deconstructed” immanently, from within.

کلیدواژه ها:

Artificial intelligence ، Symbolic Order ، Lacan ، Wissenstrieb