About this episode

This episode explores how Hannah Arendt’s concept of 'thoughtlessness' relates to the harmful impacts of AI systems due to a lack of engagement with their consequences.

Exploring how Hannah Arendt’s concept of “thoughtlessness” reveals why AI systems create the perfect conditions for systematic harm that emerge from widespread non-engagement with consequences.

People in this episode

Host: Angel Evan

Topics covered

• AI
• thoughtlessness
• systematic harm
• Hannah Arendt
• consequences
• non-engagement

Keywords

• Hannah Arendt
• AI
• thoughtlessness
• systematic harm
• consequences
• philosophy
• technology

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