Philosopher Yuk Hui's new book rewrites Kant's three questions for machines
tarantulae · x · 2026-11-12
A recommendation of philosopher Yuk Hui's new book The Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after Generative AI. The book reads Kant alongside the line from Turing to deep learning, transferring Kant's three famous questions to machines: What counts as an intelligent machine? Can machines be moral? Is there an algorithm for perpetual peace? "What is the human?" is replaced by "What is the machine?", and the book proposes a "Kant test" after the Turing test to analyze what systems like ChatGPT actually do.
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