The Art of Artificial Intelligence in the Perspective of Philosophical Anthropology: How Have Creative Machines Influenced Human Self-Consciousness

Works by the Winners of the Philosophical Essay Competition of the RAS Institute of Philosophy "The Impact of Digitalization on the Knowledge of the World and on Human Self-Awareness"

Abstract

This paper aims to clarify the understanding of the significance of artificial intelligence (AI) art from the perspective of philosophical anthropology and explain how AI art may influence human self-consciousness. Currently, with the advancements of related technologies, generative AI is widely used in artistic creation, and already has attracted attention from the art community and researchers. However, there are many debates surrounding these works. One key issue is AI's creativity itself: traditional understanding of art asserts that AI cannot possess creativity, yet experiments have already shown that people cannot distinguish between artworks created by AI and those by human artists. Many contemporary philosophers believe that creativity is not exclusively a human trait, thus there are no barriers to recognizing AI as an art creator. The author of this paper believes that the issue of AI's creativity cannot be simply solved and it does not simply help us understand AI art better at all. Therefore, the author seeks to develop F.I. Girenok's philosophical anthropology in a direction that focuses on our hallucinations and hallucenosises, which will help us better understand the artistic nature of AI creations and their impact on our self-consciousness.