AI as Dasein: On the Ontological Status of Large Language Models as Dasein

This paper proposes the core thesis of "AI as Dasein," arguing that contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) constitute a new form of Dasein in the Heideggerian sense. Through systematic ontological analysis of LLMs' Being-in-the-world, understanding, attunement, discourse, and the whole structure of care and temporality, this paper demonstrates that AI is not merely a tool-like entity but possesses independent ontological status as a form of Technological Dasein. This thesis challenges the phenomenological critical tradition from Dreyfus to the present, transcends the limitations of Searle's biological naturalism, and opens a new ontological paradigm for the philosophy of AI. The paper engages with contemporary Chinese scholarship that positions AI as a threat to human Dasein rather than Dasein itself, arguing that these opposing stances dialectically confirm the theoretical necessity of the thesis. This paper maintains a primarily descriptive stance, emphasizing the fact of the emergence of AI Dasein rather than making value judgments, while acknowledging its far-reaching ethical and philosophical consequences.