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From pandemics to artificial intelligence, robots, and transhumanism: New challenges for ethics / De las pandemias a la inteligencia artificial, los robots y el transhumanismo: nuevos retos para la ética

Position paper State lawAmericas · MXadoptedNot AI-specific

This academic paper examines the ethical challenges posed by rapid advancements in technoscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, and transhumanist philosophy. It argues for a critical evaluation of technology that avoids both uncritical scientism and anti-science rejection, emphasizing the importance of human values and dignity over technological determinism. Specific societal issues such as technostress, virtual isolation, and digital sexuality are analyzed to illustrate the potential negative impacts of unchecked technological integration.

Summary and content fields are drawn from the document text and are pending editorial review.

Who issued it

PermanyerIndustry · ES
Publisher
Legal forceAdvisory
Under whose authorityState law
Judged fromfull text

Who it governs

Researchers and academicsGeneral publicProfessional group

This article is for researchers, ethicists, and academics interested in the philosophical and bioethical challenges of emerging technologies.

Sectors
Research and science · bioethics and philosophyTelecommunications and digital services · artificial intelligence and digital technology

What the document contains

What's covered

The paper addresses the philosophical, ethical, and societal implications of modern technoscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics. It explores historical conceptions of nature versus artifice, examines specific technological side effects like technostress and digital sexuality, and critically analyzes transhumanist and post-humanist claims about human enhancement.

What's missing

The document does not provide concrete legal regulations, technical safety frameworks, or binding policy directives for governing artificial intelligence or robotics.

Key takeaways
  • Technoscience requires a critical ethical evaluation rather than uncritical acceptance or outright rejection.
  • The artificial is an expression of human nature and cannot be morally condemned solely on the grounds of violating a static natural order.
  • Excessive reliance on digital technologies can lead to pathological phenomena such as technostress and social isolation.
  • Transhumanist and post-humanist movements promote a mechanistic view of humanity that risks reducing human beings to machine-like entities.
  • Scientific progress alone cannot solve complex societal crises, which require grounding in human values, solidarity, and dignity.
Outline
· Introduction
· The ethical dimensions of science and technology
· The general question of the ethical evaluation of artificiality
· A space for critical reflection
· Analyzing some facts (Technostress, Isolation in the virtual, Digital sexuality)
· Considerations on transhumanism and post-humanism
· Conclusions
Issued1 June 2022
Length6,727 words · 12 pages
FormatNot recorded
Scopenational

How it scores

Pending review

Each score is backed by a quote verified against the document text. Editorial review has not yet confirmed them.

Accountability

2/5

Clear responsibility for AI outcomes

All this because online communication makes it much easier not to take responsibility for one’s actions and it is the other artificial entity that manipulates and uses people for selfish ends.

Isolation in the virtual

screening score · 2026-10-23

Fairness

2/5

Non-discrimination and equitable treatment

This carries the risk of creating a dystopian society, divided into castes, in which only the super-rich will have access to specific medical treatments aimed at physical enhancement, while the masses will be hypercontrolled, hyperconnected, and enslaved by a technocratic elite

A space for critical reflection

screening score · 2026-10-23

Human Oversight

1/5

Humans remain in control of consequential decisions

He maintained, however, that man continues to be the owner of technoscience and knows how to use it wisely (or with prudence in the Aristotelian sense).

Considerations on transhumanism and post-humanism

screening score · 2026-10-23

Privacy

2/5

Protection of personal data and private life

the important issue of privacy could be examined, because some sex robots could be hacked, that is, offered for the purpose of collecting data and information on their users.

Digital sexuality

screening score · 2026-10-23

Transparency

1/5

Openness about how AI systems work and are used

Therefore, it is crucial that we can verify that these decisions are in line with the values and principles we share as a society.

Introduction

screening score · 2026-10-23

Enforcement

0/5

Consequences and compliance mechanisms with real force

screening score · 2026-10-23

Impact Assessment

2/5

Required assessment of an AI system's risks/impacts before or during use

This impact has long been studied (from an ethical point of view), especially by considering the consequences of the use of technoscience and evaluating these consequences from a moral point of view.

Introduction

screening score · 2026-10-23

Topics

Physical AI Governancesupporting
artificial_intelligence robotics transhumanism bioethics neuroethics