Abstract
It is not rare that a philosophical concept like “intelligence” was misunderstood by natural sciences, in their struggle to conquer knowledge. Nowadays we are in front of a major question, that stands in the way both of philosophy and science: the artificial intelligence has driven us to a new level of complexity, and the possibility of sort out in a fraction of a second what a human is unable to solve in months is today a reality. This horizon, however astonishing it might be, has arisen a young, and yet an old question in the philosophical thinking: what is the intelligence? Because, in the way of developing artificial intelligence, we have, often, overtaken our own concept of such capacity. We often define it as the capacity of problem-solving. Although, by doing so, we forget the struggle of the history of psychology, with the theory of multiple intelligences. We forget, too, the thinking of modern philosophers in the matter: intelligence is, first and foremost, a way of activity of a living being, and is precisely in that way that the phenomenon of intelligence has been accessible to us in history (even in natural history). That puts us in front of two brand new of different, and connected, questions: Can, an intelligence, be artificial? Which ones are the derived ethical problems of such consideration? I try to contribute to this debate from a perspective enriched by the works of Xavier Zubiri.
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KEYWORDS
Artificial Intelligence, Life, Ethics, Intelligence
