Abstract
The well-established distinction between ‘knowledge about’ and ‘knowledge within’ calls into question the suitability of GenAI for scholarly activities which require grounding in commitments to a world. These commitments, relations and forms sustain a world with which scholars think, know and construct the problems their research addresses. Without a comparable world, GenAI is disclosed as un-situated, uncommitted, as well as characterized by an ‘emptiness within’ that is problematic for scholarly knowledge innovation and evaluation.
Recommended Citation
Hovorka, Dirk, "Generative AI: The Emptiness Within" (2024). ECIS 2024 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/debates/debates/1
Generative AI: The Emptiness Within
The well-established distinction between ‘knowledge about’ and ‘knowledge within’ calls into question the suitability of GenAI for scholarly activities which require grounding in commitments to a world. These commitments, relations and forms sustain a world with which scholars think, know and construct the problems their research addresses. Without a comparable world, GenAI is disclosed as un-situated, uncommitted, as well as characterized by an ‘emptiness within’ that is problematic for scholarly knowledge innovation and evaluation.
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