Introductory Comment

When AI meets common sense, frictions will arise


Part1: The scene and the argument of common sense

1. AI with common sense: What concept of common sense?

2. Self-awareness and common sense: The paradox of AI. A dispassionate look


Part2: Egocentric common sense: AI with additional features

3. Giving AI some common sense

4. Human interaction with robots

5. Towards robots with common sense

6. Common sense, artificial intelligence and psychology


Part3: Inter-subjective common sense: public discourse

7. Giambatistta Vico’s dialogical common sense

8. The a-sociability of AI: Knowledge, social interactions, and the dynamics of common sense

9. Exploring the common wisdom on artificial intelligence and its political consequences: The case of Germany

10. Associations of AI and common sense in the news

11. Meanwhile in Japan: The possibility of Techno-animism for engaging deliberation for emerging technology


Part4: Unsettling or highlighting common sense?

12. Common-sense attributions of AI agency: Evidence from an experiment with ChatGPT

13. The challenges and opportunities in large language models: Navigating the perils of stochastic and scholastic parrots in artificial understanding and common sense

14. Artificial intelligence in personnel selection: Reactions of researchers, practitioners and applicants

15. Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) and common sense


Part5: Conclusion

16. AI goes to the movies: Fast, intermediate and slow common sense