The Silence of the World and the Algorithm's Answer Artificial Intelligence, Moral Authority, and the Rethinking of the Human

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Published: Jun 7, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dia.45804
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Generative AI Predictive AI Algorithmic Bias Ethics Moral Agency Black Box Applied Ethics Camus Epistemology
Evgenia Falenkova
Ph.D. Philosophy , Lorain County Community College (LCCC), Lorain, Ohio, USA Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), Cleveland, Ohio, USA Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), New Hampshire, USA
Abstract

Artificial intelligence is described as a system capable of judgment, ethical forecasting, and moral choice.  Platforms such as the MIT Moral Machine, the Moral Dilemma Generator, YesChat’s ethical dilemma generator powered by ChatGPT, the FCAI Ethics Exercise Tool are used for identification and resolving ethical, societal, and legal questions.  This paper examines what these platforms represent — the positioning of algorithmic systems as participants in moral reasoning.  This paper examines the ethics through automotive and algorithmic agency, touches on themes of the ontology of GenAI addressing some of the epistemological challenges.   The work develops in five steps: the ethics from a black box and structural opacity; empirical harm through bias, stereotype, exclusion in language; the displacement of moral formation and the asymmetry between what we require of educators and of the AI; conscience abdication through Aristotle, Tolstoy, Arendt; the epistemological argument through Husserl, Hume, and the figure of the absurd in Camus.

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