Call for Papers

“ChatGPT and the Voices of Reason, Responsibility, and Regulation”
Special issue of Technology and Reason
https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/news/chatgpt_i_golosa_razuma_otvetstvennosti_i_regulirovaniya/

Guest editors: Elena Seredkina, LIU Yongmou

Submission deadline: March 5, 2024

ChatGPT reconfigures the public sphere. It brings to a head the question: Must we mean what we say? How to take responsibility for artificially produced text – and how in different technopolitical traditions to regulate it. The special issue seeks to highlight two aspects:

1) Large language models and the culture of dialogue in the context of human-machine interaction:

From the perspective of the history of Western thought, the “dialogue” that began in ancient Greece is not an exchange of information, but an act of cognition of a certain object through being present together. But what is a dialogue with ChatGPT? Will a new way of asking questions bring us into a new world of thinking?

2) Legal regulation of ChatGPT in various sociocultural contexts, technical and technocratic governance:

Different technological paradigms or forms of technical intelligence respond differently to the challenges of the digital age. ChatGPT evokes technocracy and the idea of monitoring or shaping the “voices of reason” (“public sphere”) and the technological “Lebenswelt” – with societies confronting the question of how an intelligence should behave and how it can be bound to the truth.

All aspects call for innovative models of adapting ChatGPT for use.

[More information:

• Elena Seredkina: ResearchGate (including publications on human-robot interaction)
• Technology and Reason journal: soctech@spbstu.ru ]