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Explore the philosophical foundations of human work and agency through this Berkeley Seminar lecture that examines how AI transformation challenges our understanding of human intelligence and labor. Delve into Martin Heidegger's ontology of human agency and trace its influence through the Dreyfus brothers' skill model to Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores' theory of conversational work structures. Analyze the historical claims about AI's capacity to replicate human work while developing a deeper philosophical framework for understanding what makes human agency distinctive. Investigate the conversational nature of human work as presented in "Understanding Computers and Cognition" and consider how this philosophical tradition informs contemporary debates about artificial intelligence and the future of human labor. Engage with work-in-progress research that bridges continental philosophy, cognitive science, and AI theory to assess the plausibility of claims about AI's potential to fully replace human workers.
