{"id":57751,"date":"2026-02-24T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svch.io\/?p=57751"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:07:48","slug":"ai-ethics-in-the-posthuman-age-power-risk-and-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svch.io\/es\/ai-ethics-in-the-posthuman-age-power-risk-and-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Ethics in the Posthuman Age: Power, Risk, and Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>Rajakishore Nath<\/a> and RIYA MANNA<\/a> , \u201cFrom posthumanism to ethics of artificial intelligence,\u201d AI & Society<\/em> 38(1)<\/strong>, 185\u2013196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCited by\u201d (approx):<\/strong> 108<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the paper is trying to do<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This is a conceptual philosophy paper<\/strong>, not an experiment. The authors are basically asking: as AI and \u201cposthuman\u201d futures get more plausible, who counts as a moral agent<\/strong>, and how does that reshape AI ethics<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their own abstract frames the mission :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our aim \u2026 is to critically analyze the authenticity of the posthuman cyborg as an agent \u2026 and the emergence of \u2018AI ethics\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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AI-centered key findings (what you can actually use)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1) AI pushes a shift in what \u201chuman\u201d even means<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

They argue posthumanism \u201cdeconstructs\u201d a radical concept of the human, and that AI advancement will drive a new conception of \u201cbiological human being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sooner or later, we shall get a different conception of \u2018biological human being\u2019 through the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A lot of AI ethics assumes stable categories: human users, human rights-holders, nonhuman tools. This paper says those categories are about to get messy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) \u201cHybrid beings\u201d and cyborgs force the moral agency question<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

They highlight a future where AI could replace parts of the brain or body, creating \u201chybrid human beings,\u201d and ask whether these hybrids should be treated as moral agents like biological humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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we must analyze whether \u2026 \u2018hybrid human beings\u2019 [are] moral agents, similar to biological humans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

AI angle:<\/strong> This is the bridge from posthumanism into AI ethics. If agency is distributed across human and machine, then \u201cwho did the action\u201d becomes a design and governance problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Responsibility is the central ethical bottleneck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

They call responsibility \u201cthe most debatable issue\u201d and link it to whether we can build \u201cconscious moral agency\u201d into machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n