인공지능과 인문정신: 디지털 시대의 인문학의 대중화

Abstract

Martin Heidegger, in his widely-known essay, “The Question Concerning the Technology,” asks prophetic questions anticipating the era of artificial intelligence and posthumanism, defines technology in terms of an “instrumentum” of Latin etymology which combines the double meanings of “a means to an end” and “human activity,” and articulates the “instrumentality” in the context of the Aristotelian causality of the four causes. The instrumentality refers to the use of the tool by setting it up. Heidegger argues that the instrumentality is the condition that brings about the right relationship between humans and technology, the relationship in which technology depends on how humans properly control the means. Thus, technology is inevitably instrumental and anthropological. The importance of the ethical value of this paper lies in the way humans dominate technology psycho-somatically. As the technology threatens to get out of human control, the human will to dominate the technology becomes urgent. In this context, this paper traces the development of AI in relation to the robotics in a genealogical way, in particular, the developmental process in which humanities, cognitive science, brain science, and robotics are rapidly and broadly integrated based on artificial intelligence and big data. Then, this paper showcases the analysis of how humanities thinking methods, especially literary imagination and philosophical thinking methods, relate to the popularization of humanities in the digital age in the context of written language and humanities through the coding process. The main objective of this paper is to examine the significance and the relevance of artificial intelligence and human intelligence to the human community at large that embodies the collective humanities spirit.