Why we need a multilateral and global understanding about Artificial Intelligence (AI): the case of the symbolic / connectionist controversy.

Abstract

Artificial intelligence has increasingly been a subject for policymakers worldwide, with implications in virtually all areas of our lives. Because it is a vast interdisciplinary subject, only some people are able to understand what it is and how it works - nor its potential and current impacts on contemporary society. One such obscure trait about artificial intelligence to a non-scholar audience is that, in reality, it is not one but rather two different techniques, both aiming at producing “intelligence.” Therefore, it is imperative that inter and intranational bodies are created, where stakeholders from the various disciplines will find a democratic forum to exchange points of view and influence policies and, more broadly, the public debate on the set of technologies known as artificial intelligence.