Against AI Ableism: On "Optimal" Machines and "Disabled" Human Beings

Borderless Philosophy 7:171-190 (2024)
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My aim in this paper is to show how the functionalist standards assumed in the AI debate are, in fact, the assumptions of a capitalist, ableist society writ large. The already established argument against the proposed humanity of AI systems implies a wider critique of the entire ideology of functionalism under which the notion of intelligent machines has taken root.

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