Applied philosophy of AIThinking human-AI relations beyond dichotomies
Series · 5 episodes
Thinking AI with Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler spent his life thinking about technics without putting it on trial or worshipping it. This series puts his tools to work on artificial intelligence: the pharmakon, grammatisation, proletarianisation, tertiary retention — and what they change about our concrete decisions.
Bernard Stiegler Facing AI: The Poison, the Remedy — and the Scapegoat
For or against AI? The question is badly posed. With Stiegler and the three senses of the pharmakon — poison, remedy, and scapegoat — learn to pose it differently.
LLMs, a New Stage of Grammatisation
With Stiegler, moving past the stochastic-parrot debate: LLMs grammatise formulation itself. The real question: what do we still interiorize?
Proletarianisation: What We Delegate to Machines
What AI makes us lose is not first and foremost jobs: it is capacities. With Stiegler, a criterion to decide — a delegation proletarianises when knowledge ceases to be exercised and understood.
Tertiary Retention: Our Externalized Memories
Externalizing memory is the human condition, not a decline. The real question, with Stiegler: who owns the supports? Otto's notebook is owned — ours are rented.
Against Disruption, Contributory Technologies
Series finale: after four defensive tools, Stiegler's positive criterion — a technology is contributory when those who use it come out more capable of thinking together.