How AI-Adjudication might Erode Law as a Site of Moral Perceptual Progress
AI and other forms of digital tech are profoundly changing legal contexts. These changes come in various sorts. AI can support and replace judicial processes, but it can also profoundly disrupt existing judicial practices and values ( Sourdin 2015). In my talk, I am interested in AI’s disruptive effects. Specifically,I will argue that AI used for adjudication purposes has the potential to disrupt the law as a site of moral perceptual progress.
Do artefacts have promises? Do promises have artefacts? On why AI ethics should pay attention to the question of the performative
Adapting ethical frameworks such as value sensitive design (VSD) and ethics by design (EbD) to the specificity of AI systems (Umbrello and van de Poel, 2021; Brey and Dainow, 2023) can be seen as a recent attempt to systematically respond to the more general ideas of AI for Social Good (Floridi et al., 2020) or AI alignment (Dung, 2023). Despite the differences among these frameworks, the motivation stems from the same challenge—to ensure that AI systems promote, bring about or perform desirable ethical values through their own design.
The fear of AI is a Trojan Horse — A Rationale
Mainstream media report that governments and business leaders see AI as an "extinction-level threat" to humans[1,2,3]. In post-humanism, we find, besides conceptional tools for thinking technology in an indeterministic way[4,5,6] argumentations for singularity[7], accelerationism[8] and appeasement[9] towards *strong AI*.