Il profilo normativo dell’intelligenza artificiale. Un’indagine sulla relazione tra sistemi intelligenti e normatività morale = The Normative Profile of Artificial Intelligence: A Study on the Relationship Between Intelligent Systems and Moral Normativity

The paper aims to investigate so-called digital normativity understood as the binding force exerted on our lives by the predictions and standards produced by intelligent systems. In order to investigate such normative force in the moral field, we make use of the postphenomenological reflections of D. Ihde and P.P. Verbeek. In particular, starting from the definition of artificial intelligence in the terms of quasi-other proposed by Ihde and the function of technological mediation highlighted by Verbeek, we propose to define the normative force exerted by intelligent systems in the terms of quasi-normativity. By this expression we intend to highlight the peculiar status of the normative demands raised by such systems. In fact, according to the proposed thesis, such instances, although not morally neutral, cannot be considered normative in the strong sense, since this kind of strong normativity requires human approval. In this direction of inquiry, we suggest rethinking as the (hybrid) origin of moral normativity the human-technology interaction