Bioethics and artificial intelligence: between deliberation on values and rational choice theory

Abstract

The present work revisits how artificial intelligence, as technology and ideology, is based on the rational choice theory and the techno-liberal discourse, supported by large corporations and investment funds. Those that promote using different algorithmic processes (such as filter bubbles or echo chambers) create homogeneous and polarized spaces that reinforces people’s ethical, ideological, and political narratives. These mechanisms validate bubbles of choices as statements of fact and contravene the prerequisites for exercising deliberation in pluralistic societies, such as the distinction between data and values, the affirmation of reasonable dissent, and the relevance of diversity as a condition indispensable for democratic deliberation.

Testing influences of openness, conscientiousness, nationalism, media diversity, social class, and informational echo chambers on support for official responses to COVID-19 in Wuhan in November, 2020

“…The emergence of an echo chamber may have serious negative consequences. Researchers worried that echo chambers might foster the adoption of more extreme opinions or ideological positions, and distort individual cognition of shared values of society ( Hart et al, 2009 ; Cinelli et al, 2021 ; Pinto-Bustamante et al, 2023 ). However, empirical evidence about how echo chambers shape public attitude toward government is inconclusive.…”