AI Literacy and Philosophical Research on Artificial Superintelligence: A Scoping Review and Synthesis

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Abstract

Artificial superintelligence (ASI)—AI that vastly exceeds human intelligence in all domains—receives sustained attention in philosophy and computer science but is largely overlooked in K-12 AI literacy. This paper (1) provides the first scoping review of recent philosophical work on ASI and (2) analyzes this work in dialogue with recent AI literacy reviews. By integrating these two bodies of literature, this study identifies new opportunities to expand curricular content about ASI; processes of inquiry into philosophical aspects of AI literacy; and instructional strategies from AI literacy initiatives to extend to ASI. Ultimately this study aims to prepare students to democratically shape futures many expect will contain powerful forms of artificial intelligence.

Authors

• Nicolas Jordan Tanchuk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Rebecca M. Taylor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Seunghyun Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Ashish Gaur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign