Artificial intelligence and quasi-normativity: Some indications for a solution to the normative question in the field of AI ethics

This chapter aims to investigate the notion of digital normativity, understood as the binding force exerted on the human subject by the predictions and standards established by artificial intelligent systems. To this end, we focus our attention on the merits and limits of the recent treatment of digital normativity proposed by Fourneret and Yvert, in order to bring a decisive correction to their ideas through the introduction of the notion of quasi-normativity. In order to introduce and develop this notion in the context of enquiry into the digital sphere, we make use of Don Ihde's precise postphenomenological considerations on the nature of the artificial agent as a quasi-other. With the aid of Ihde's postphenomenological approach and the introduction of the notion of quasi-normativity, we intend to shed new light on the binding force of AI and offer some guidance for the resolution of the normative question in intelligent systems.