Talking and thinking with AI : how AI chatbots restructure epistemic identity and virtue

english

2025

volume 30, issue 119/120

agency   artificial intelligence (AI)   epistemic collaboration   epistemic identity   epistemic virtue   human-AI interaction

Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper
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The incorporation of large language models or ai-driven chatbots into every-day communication and knowledge practices has significant implications for how we think and understand ourselves as epistemic agents. This paper investigates how ai chatbots reshape epistemic identity and virtue, focusing on the effects of human-ai interaction. The use of ai chatbots can ultimately impact epistemic virtues such as curiosity, intellectual humility, and open-mindedness on the one hand, and also raise questions about epistemic agency and responsibility on the other. This paper emphasizes the importance of reflective practices that maintain human autonomy, foster epistemic responsibility, and promote virtuous collabo-ration with ai systems. Ultimately, this paper advocates for a partial reimagining of epistemic identity and epistemic collaboration in the age of ai, seeking a bal-ance between the advantages of ai and the significance and uniqueness of human intellectual endeavors.

04.03.2026