<p>This article examines the emergence of a hybrid and collective form of judgment within the context of generative and recommendation-based artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It argues that these systems actively configure two essential dimensions of human judgment: truth as <i>unconcealment</i> (<i>aletheia</i>), and opportunity as the temporal opening in which one decides or acts in relation to what appears as true (<i>kairos</i>). This thesis draws on Éric Sadin’s critical phenomenology of AI, which claims that this technological form institutes an algorithmic regime of truth that imposes itself not through coercion, but through a kind of “soft Leviathan” that seduces and organizes user behavior by means of “truths” that are no longer revealed, but rather instantly delivered through persuasive and pleasing options, programmatically produced and made available to users. These options are optimized through every interaction and opportunistically capture the moments of deliberation and action, ultimately reconfiguring both the temporality and the lived experience of judgment itself. We propose a different reading grounded in postphenomenology, which maintains that the interaction between users and these systems (i.e., their condition of embodiment) results in a mutual constitution from which new hybrid forms of agency emerge, giving rise to a technologically mediated and collectively automated regime of judgment.</p>

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Just in time: the algorithmic capture of truth and opportunity in AI-reconfigured judgment

  • Roberto Pizarro Contreras,
  • Zhitong Zhao,
  • Guihong Zhang

摘要

This article examines the emergence of a hybrid and collective form of judgment within the context of generative and recommendation-based artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It argues that these systems actively configure two essential dimensions of human judgment: truth as unconcealment (aletheia), and opportunity as the temporal opening in which one decides or acts in relation to what appears as true (kairos). This thesis draws on Éric Sadin’s critical phenomenology of AI, which claims that this technological form institutes an algorithmic regime of truth that imposes itself not through coercion, but through a kind of “soft Leviathan” that seduces and organizes user behavior by means of “truths” that are no longer revealed, but rather instantly delivered through persuasive and pleasing options, programmatically produced and made available to users. These options are optimized through every interaction and opportunistically capture the moments of deliberation and action, ultimately reconfiguring both the temporality and the lived experience of judgment itself. We propose a different reading grounded in postphenomenology, which maintains that the interaction between users and these systems (i.e., their condition of embodiment) results in a mutual constitution from which new hybrid forms of agency emerge, giving rise to a technologically mediated and collectively automated regime of judgment.