Sztuczna inteligencja – produkt czy podmiot?

Abstract

Science and technology have created machines that in many aspects resemble people in action, and even exceed them in the ability to recognize, in the speed of thinking and counting, in the memory capacity. Thus, the development of humanity is at a time when the difference between the abilities of a human person and the artificial creation begins to blur. This article tries to trace how human nature was understood over the millennia and how it must now be re-egzamined in the confrontation with the rapidly growing artificial intelligence over the last decades. How predictable is the further development of artificial intelligence, and how much more will it replace the human person, or even improve human nature? There are here emerging questions: anthropological – concerning the evolution of human nature, philosophical - how much creation can exceed the creator, and ethical – about the human and machine dignity, and responsibility for deeds. Is human nature immutable or subjected to technological evolution? To what extent can we allow machines to manage successive areas of our life and will it not turn against a human? This article follows stages of anthropology in different cultures and at different stages of civilization, and raises questions related to the emergence of a new reality, radically changing human life and touching the very essence of human creation.