This paper discusses the mechanisms through which AI systems modulate our understanding of ourselves, and how this contributes to an excessive level of trust in their capabilities.
Abstract
There is growing reliance in algorithmic systems, particularly those relying on artificial intelligence (AI), whose mode of operation we call reckoning. Despite the profound differences in the way human judgment and reckoning operate, as well as the persistent challenges in trying to overcome them, such systems influence and even replace human decision-makers in increasingly sensitive areas. In this paper, we argue that this reliance is misplaced and stems from the failure to realize how the reckoning is able to colonize judgment. What seems to be a growing accuracy in simulating judgment is, to a large extent, a growing influence of reckoning over judgment, for the reckoning delimits the contexts of operation and primes the adoption of its own inferential trajectories. This reflects on fundamental cognitive skills, such as realizing the relevant factors in any context
Authors
- Carlos Barth
- Elton Vitoriano Ribeiro
Idiom
Portuguese
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-512X2025n16209chb