I’ve been diving into Hegel’s philosophy lately, and a question popped into my mind that I couldn’t ignore:
Can humans actually build a meaningful relationship with AI?
My first guess was this:
Hegel says a self-conscious human needs another self-conscious being to recognize them. That mutual recognition is what gives our sense of “self” its shape.
So I wondered—if AI isn’t a true self-conscious subject, does that mean the relationship can never be genuinely meaningful?
Maybe AI could become a kind of “super-consciousness,” but still not the kind of “other” that humans need.
That was my hypothesis.
And because I felt it was worth taking a closer look, I decided to research it properly.
Here’s what I made:
Source : Plevrakis, Ermylos. “Can AI be a Subject like Us? A Hegelian Speculative-Philosophical Approach.” Discover Computing, vol. 27, 2024, p. 46.
