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Science Fiction as a Haven for Convergences and Divergences among Philosophical and Speculative Hypotheses in Ethics: The Study of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Ted Chiang’s “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” | ||
| مجله پژوهش های فلسفی | ||
| مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 29 مرداد 1405 | ||
| نوع مقاله: مقاله علمی- پژوهشی | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22034/jpiut.2026.72547.4522 | ||
| نویسنده | ||
| حسین محسنی* | ||
| استادیار، گروه زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران | ||
| چکیده | ||
| This article investigates the relationship between literary and philosophical approaches to the ethics of artificial intelligence through a comparative study of “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” and the AI philosophy of Nick Bostrom. The study asks how Chiang’s literary representation of digients converges with and diverges from philosophical formulations of AI ethics, especially when it comes to the issues of predictability, moral status, technological determinism, and artificial general intelligence (AGI). Employing comparative textual and philosophical analysis, the article places Chiang’s novella in dialogue with Bostrom’s writings on transparency, accountability, friendliness, and utilitarian governance of AI systems. The study argues that Chiang’s novella both reflects and critiques the deterministic and capitalist logic underlying contemporary AI ethics. Whereas Bostrom emphasizes predictability, transparency, incorruptibility, and economic utility as safeguards for managing AI – the safeguards that due to their limiting nature will prevent AI to realize its generality – Chiang foregrounds the affective, embodied, and socially embedded dimensions of digital beings. The article demonstrates that the novella exposes the violence of technological obsolescence by depicting the digients’ reduction into marketable and telemobile commodities, while simultaneously presenting their experiential growth, heuristic intelligence, and emotional singularity as evidence of genuine generality. The findings suggest that Chiang develops a form of “non-human humanism” that reconfigures humanist values such as autonomy, equality, and social belonging beyond anthropocentric limits. In contrast to Bostrom’s utilitarian and control-oriented framework, Chiang presents unpredictability, embodiment, and mutual adaptation as necessary conditions for acknowledging AI moral status and realizing AGI. Ultimately, the article concludes that literary fiction expands the ethical imagination of AI beyond the restrictive logic of capitalist optimization and technological determinism which are rendered in Bostrom’s philosophical framework. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| Chiang؛ Bostrom؛ Artificial Intelligence (AI)؛ Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)؛ Generality | ||
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