  Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate?
'Making AI Intelligible' shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of
meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the
externalist tradition in philosophy to create models of how AIs and humans can
understand each other. In doing so, they illustrate ways in which that
philosophical tradition can be improved.
  The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting,
but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions
about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we
presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (for
example, creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants). If AIs can
share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on
AI. This ground-breaking study offers insight into how to take some first steps
towards achieving Interpretable AI.
