Abstract:
Maybe AIs have alien contents and we need a fundamentally different kind of
metasemantics for AI systems than we do for humans. The aim is to explore a cluster of closely related topics:
(i) What would it be for a system to have alien (non-human) contents and how
could we recognize these as contents?
(ii) What would it be for a system to have alien (non-human) metasemantics and
how could we recognize it as a metasemantics?
(ii) Could artificial intelligences have alien contents and alien metasemantics?
(iii) If AIs have alien contents and metasemantics, how do we communicate (and
otherwise engage) with them?
Much of what we have to say is exploratory. This is in large part an effort to convince readers that it’s possible that AIs have both alien contents and alien metasemantics.
