Abstract

Heidegger had already labeled his own time as the “Atomic Age.” However, in Heidegger’s view, the traditional view of technology as a mere tool, or a consequentialist view of technology based on its positive or negative effects, fails to capture the essential meaning of technology or reveal the true relationship between technology and humanity. Therefore, Heidegger argues that today's technologies have a historical destiny and seeks to uncover what it means to be human in the technological age by phenomenologizing human beings who accept the unilateral demands of such technologies. This paper, will show that today’s era can be called the “age of artificial intelligence technology,” just as Heidegger’s own era was called the “atomic age,” and suggest what kind of attitude humans should have in the face of contemporary technology, which is inherently different from modern technology, within Heidegger’s view of technology.