The event, organized by the Escola Europea de Pensament Lluís Vives, will take place on February 19, 2025 in the Aula Magna of the Centre Cultural La Nau. Participants include Adela Cortina, author of the book and Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Universitat de València; Vicente Botti, Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Polytechnic Universitat de València; Pablo Blázquez, director and editor of the journal Ethic; and Domingo García-Marzá, Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Universitat Jaume I of Castellón. The debate will be moderated by José Félix Lozano, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Polytechnic Universitat de València.
Adela Cortina, winner of the 2015 National Essay Prize and author of the bestseller Aporophobia, reflects in her new book on the ethical challenges posed by AI and warns us of its dangers for democracy. Artificial intelligence was born laden with promises and threats, arousing both enthusiasm and suspicion. Both enthusiasts and skeptics call for it to be endowed with ethics to defend and empower human beings and nature; some even claim that we will be able to eradicate diseases, conquer death, and create a superior species that inaugurates a world of peace and happiness.
Faced with such an optimistic vision, are we really talking about “ethics” or about “ideology”? Are we treating as science what is not, in order to attract lucrative investments or to win in the competition for world power? And all the while, strategic reason triumphs in the public sphere and communicative reason is eclipsed. This is terrible news if we want to strengthen democracy, which is endangered globally—and, of course, in Spain, Europe, and Latin America
With the clarity of ideas and arguments that characterize Adela Cortina, this book addresses all the key aspects of the AI debate: the ethical duty of the technosciences, the geostrategy of power, the challenges of robotics, freedom in the digital age, and the control of the public space by algorithms and technologies.
