Artificial hyper ethics: criticism of the algorithmic colonization of morality

Abstract

This study aims to critically reflect on the possibility of a datafied, hyperconnected, and algorithmized approach to the clarification, foundation, and application of morality: artificial hyperethics. To this end, ethics will be presented as a practical knowledge concerned with the rationalization of free behaviors, which has found in dialogue among affected parties the criterion of morality from which to criticize both knowledge and behavior. Subsequently, etification will be explored, the attempt to establish processes for transforming social and moral reality into computable online data and metadata. Then, it will be exposed how artificially intelligent mathematical models are progressively and relentlessly colonising the processes of meaning-based rationalisation, producing meaninglessness, anomie and psychopathologies in mature democracies. Finally, a critical reflection will be made on the design, application, and use of artificial intelligence algorithms as a tool to establish what is just and succesful for a digitally hyperconnected society.