Ethical Challenges and Risks Caused by the Intelligence Revolution

Abstract

The consciousness of sharing fostered by the digitizing transformation and development in society has overturned the economic ethical assumptions built upon the consciousness of ownership. The widespread utilization of intelligent machines and artificial agents has presented challenges to labor ethics. Furthermore, the subtle persuasion and manipulation of humans by technologies, such as algorithms, along with the technologization of both the human body and mind have made it challenging to adapt to principles such as fairness, justice, autonomy, and voluntariness. These changes have introduced new potential ethical risks, obscuring the distinction between private and public spaces, transforming cognitive practices into ethical ones, and elevating accountability to a new topic that connects epistemology, ethics, and ontology. Our actions, perceptions, intentions, and morality have become intertwined with modern information technology. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a new ethical framework based on the relational self, consciousness of sharing, leisure labor, and subversion of various dichotomous concepts. This signifies the initiation of the second process of “a man as a human being.”

Keywords

digital world / mutual intelligence empowerment / artificial agent / cognitive responsibility / human become human

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