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Philosophy & AI
What’s intelligence in the age of AI?
Sufficiently autonomous AI systems of today are intelligent to some degree. The degree is given by their ability to make predictions.
My two main pieces of work on Philosophy & AI is, on the one hand, a monograph which attempts to make sense of the I in AI. You should read this book entitled «The Quest for a Universal Theory of Intelligence» if you wonder and wish to find out why entrepreneurs are the incarnation of how we humans became smart. Because the evolutionary process from figuring out simple causes and effects to tool use in the cave to light up a fire to developing complex technology (as we tech entrepreneurs do it today) has led to more intelligence… and there is more to be said… ​
On the other hand, I wrote the book «Zukunftsethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz», dealing with ethical problems of AI that need to be tackled before technological progress gallops away. You should read this book if you would like to learn about effective alternatives to top-down regulatory approaches; alternatives which foster innovation, tech entrepreneurship as well as liberal business ethics.
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Publications
Here is a selection of my publications that underline my research interests and competencies in philosophy.
For a full publication list, please reach out.
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Philosophy of Technology
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2022 Is AI intelligent? An assessment of Artificial Intelligence, 70 years after Turing. Technology in Society, 68: 101893.
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2022. A Philosophical View on Singularity and Strong AI. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication.
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Hoffmann, C.H., & Hahn, B. 2020. Decentered ethics in the machine era and guidance for AI regulation. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 35: 635–644.
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Business Ethics
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2021. Vom Irrglauben an Nutzenmaximierer. Die Rolle der Erwartungsnutzenmaximierung für rationale und ethische Entscheidungen. zfwu - Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 2: 312–331.
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2020. Klugheits- versus Metaklugheits- und moralischen Überlegungen anhand eines Umweltspiels. Was das Modell des Gefangenendilemmas über Kooperation bei Fragen des Klimawandels lehrt. Forum Wirtschaftsethik. Available at: https://www.forum-wirtschaftsethik.de/klugheits-versus-metaklugheits-und-moralischen-ueberlegungen-anhand-eines-umweltspiels/.
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2019. Economic Rationality, the Transaction Cost Theory, and Morality. An Extended Approach. Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics (zfwu), 20: 31–51.
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Philosophy & History of Mathematics
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2022. Der Gödelsche Unvollständigkeitssatz und seine philosophischen Implikationen für die Betrachtung von Geist und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Salzburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie.
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2022. Der Hauptsatz in der Ars conjectandi: Interpretationen von Bernoullis Beiträgen zu den Anfängen der mathematischen Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie. Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik.
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Hoffmann, C.H. 2021. Infini-Rien: Ist Pascals Wettargument formallogisch ungültig? Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/agph-2020-0104/html.