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Types of Intentionality in Humans vs. AI Systems and Robots

2025· book-chapter· en· W4408615646 on OpenAlexaff
John Barresi

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicPsychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIntentionalityCognitive scienceRobotArtificial intelligencePsychologyComputer scienceEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Abstract The present article compares human and artificial intelligence (AI) intentionality and personhood. It focuses on the difference between “intrinsic” intentionality—the object directedness that derives from animate existence and its drive for survival, and appears most especially in human conscious activity—and a more functional notion of “intentional relation” that does not require consciousness. The present article looks at intentional relations as objective concepts that can apply equally to animate beings, robots, and AI systems. As such, large language models are best described as disembodied Cartesian egos, while humanoid robots, even with large language model brains, are still far from satisfying benchmarks of embodied personhood. While robots constructed by humans have borrowed intentionality and limited forms of objective intentional relations, in the future, robots may construct themselves. If these self-constructed robots are adaptive and can persist for multiple generations as a new kind of species, then it is reasonable to suppose that they have their own form of intrinsic intentionality, different from that of animate beings currently existing on Earth.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.109
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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