Notes on Floridi’s Five

Luciano Floridi gives five “crucial conditions that make AI projects more or less successful” (146).

1) Effective-computability (see Chapter 2);

2) Epistemic-independence, i.e. whether no knowledge/understanding is relevant, or alternatively whether all relevant knowledge/understanding that is presupposed and required by the successful performance of the intelligent task, can be discovered, circumscribed, analyzed, formally structured and hence made fully manageable through computable processes.

3) Experience-independence, i.e. whether the task is based on universal and “timeless” instructions carried out by the system, or alternatively whether all practical experience, both relevant as a background condition and necessary for the successful performance of the intelligent task can be discovered, circumscribed, analyzed, formally structured and hence made fully manageable through computable processes.

4) Body-independence, i.e. whether the intelligent task can be performed by a disembodied, stand-alone intelligence, or alternatively whether all “perceptual intelligence”, both relevant as a background condition and necessary for the successful performance of the intelligent task can be discovered, circumscribed, analyzed, formally structured and hence made fully manageable through computable processes.

5) Context-freedom, i.e. whether the context is irrelevant, or alternatively whether all relevant information concerning the context within which an intelligent task is performed, and which indeed make the task intelligent, can be discovered, circumscribed, analyzed, formally structured and hence made fully manageable through computable processes.

Citations:

Floridi, Luciano. Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

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