Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
4 months ago
- #Large Language Models
- #Epistemology
- #Artificial Intelligence
- Large language models (LLMs) are described as AI but differ from human cognition.
- LLMs are stochastic pattern-completion systems, not epistemic agents forming beliefs.
- The paper identifies seven epistemic fault lines between human and artificial intelligence.
- Epistemia is introduced as a condition where linguistic plausibility substitutes epistemic evaluation.
- Consequences for AI evaluation, governance, and epistemic literacy are discussed.