The AI effect today : on denials of AI’s intelligence

Krašovec, Primož (author)

This article analyses the AI effect—briefly, the denial of AI’s intelligence—in three steps. First, it explains the tendency to deny that AI is truly intelligent. Due to experiencing its own intelligence as self-awareness, the human mind cannot help but to tie any intelligence to self-awareness. Thus, for AI to be regarded as intelligent, it would need to have self-awareness, and because it does not, humans tend to deny that AI is intelligent in any way. Second, the article presents the AI effect as an ethical issue insofar as the effect denies that AI is indeed intelligent, albeit in ways different from humans. Third, it analyses a characteristic case of the AI effect—insistence that AI is not intelligent because it has no sentience—by examining the retroactive denigration of AlphaGo.

• Language: English
• Keywords: artificial intelligence, intelligence, ethics, effect, awareness, AlphaGo
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 45-58
• Numbering: Vol. 25, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-175996
• UDC: 316.74:004.8
• ISSN on article: 2063-4552
• DOI: 10.22503/inftars.XXV.2025.2.3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 257141507
• Publication date in RUL: 17.11.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Információs társadalom : társadalomtudományi folyóirat
• Shortened title: Inf. társad.
• Publisher: Infonia Alapítvány
• ISSN: 2063-4552
• COBISS.SI-ID: 168267011

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: umetna inteligenca, etika, učinek, inteligenca, zavedanje, AlphaGo