AI on the Horizon of Interdisciplinary Thinking: from disciplinary knowledge to symbiotic intelligence

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی

نویسنده

استاد مدعو گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه تیسینگووا، بیجینگ، چین. گروه مدیریت و برنامه ریزی آموزشی، دانشگاه ایلی نویز، آمریکا.

چکیده

AI is becoming an epistemic infrastructure, a computational environment shaping what can be asked, represented, and imagined. The modern university's disciplinary depth has fragmented inquiry, and today's challenges exceed these divisions; AI is both a product of specialization and a force for reorganizing it. Drawing on Bateson, Hutchins, Clark & Chalmers, Hayles, and symbiotic intelligence, this paper develops a relational ontology for human, AI knowledge production and transdialogism, the movement of meaning across incompatible representational regimes, and examines dialogue and Wittgensteinian language-games as practices for interdisciplinary understanding. It then analyzes AI as cognitive infrastructure, arguing that foundation models create a new architecture of epistemic power requiring public governance and democratic accountability, and proposes knowledge socialism as an alternative to cognitive enclosure. Finally, it distinguishes intelligence from wisdom: AI can synthesize information but cannot determine worthwhile ends. The normative goal is collective artificial wisdom and an Eco-AI civilization integrating human flourishing, ecological sustainability, cultural plurality, democratic participation, open science, and responsible AI governance. Central thesis: AI is becoming the infrastructure of interdisciplinary thought but does not automatically produce understanding. Genuine interdisciplinary intelligence requires interpretation, epistemic plurality, democratic governance, human answerability, and ecological judgement. AI can connect disciplines, but only a critically designed human–AI knowledge ecology can turn connections into shared understanding; only symbiotic institutions can direct extended cognition toward common purposes; and only wisdom can determine whether accelerated intelligence serves democratic freedom, ecological sustainability, and planetary flourishing.

چکیده تصویری

AI on the Horizon of Interdisciplinary Thinking: from disciplinary knowledge to symbiotic intelligence

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عنوان مقاله [English]

AI on the Horizon of Interdisciplinary Thinking: from disciplinary knowledge to symbiotic intelligence

نویسنده [English]

  • Michael Peters
Visting Distinguised Professor, School of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. Philosophy Program, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
چکیده [English]

AI is becoming an epistemic infrastructure, a computational environment shaping what can be asked, represented, and imagined. The modern university's disciplinary depth has fragmented inquiry, and today's challenges exceed these divisions; AI is both a product of specialization and a force for reorganizing it. Drawing on Bateson, Hutchins, Clark & Chalmers, Hayles, and symbiotic intelligence, this paper develops a relational ontology for human, AI knowledge production and transdialogism, the movement of meaning across incompatible representational regimes, and examines dialogue and Wittgensteinian language-games as practices for interdisciplinary understanding. It then analyzes AI as cognitive infrastructure, arguing that foundation models create a new architecture of epistemic power requiring public governance and democratic accountability, and proposes knowledge socialism as an alternative to cognitive enclosure. Finally, it distinguishes intelligence from wisdom: AI can synthesize information but cannot determine worthwhile ends. The normative goal is collective artificial wisdom and an Eco-AI civilization integrating human flourishing, ecological sustainability, cultural plurality, democratic participation, open science, and responsible AI governance. Central thesis: AI is becoming the infrastructure of interdisciplinary thought but does not automatically produce understanding. Genuine interdisciplinary intelligence requires interpretation, epistemic plurality, democratic governance, human answerability, and ecological judgement. AI can connect disciplines, but only a critically designed human–AI knowledge ecology can turn connections into shared understanding; only symbiotic institutions can direct extended cognition toward common purposes; and only wisdom can determine whether accelerated intelligence serves democratic freedom, ecological sustainability, and planetary flourishing.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Symbiotic Intelligence
  • Cognitive Intraface
  • Distributed Cognition
  • Knowledge Socialism
  • Posthumanism
  • Eco-AI Civilization

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