Beyond Anthropocentrism? AI, Moral Responsibility, and the Shifting Boundaries of the Moral Community

Budić, Marina (2025) Beyond Anthropocentrism? AI, Moral Responsibility, and the Shifting Boundaries of the Moral Community. In: International Scientific Conference: Social Aspects of the Application of Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism. Institute of Social Sciences and Research and Development Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Serbia, Belgrade, pp. 62-63. ISBN 978-86-7093-290-6

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Abstract

The accelerating integration of AI into diverse facets of human life – from cultural curation and media generation, to economic decision- making and social interaction – presents social and ethical challenges that extend beyond the immediate functional impacts. Besides bias, privacy, job displacement, and similar issues, a more fundamental transformation is occurring: AI systems are becoming autonomous actors, compelling a re-examination of moral responsibility and the constitution of our moral community. This presentation draws upon foundational work in normative and applied ethics concerning moral responsibility, moral agency, and the concept of the moral community to explore how AI disrupts traditional frameworks of accountability. The author argues that the current models attributing sole responsibility to human designers, users, or owners are becoming inadequate. Through their operational opacity (“black box” problem), emergent behaviours, and distributed nature within complex socio-technical systems, AI systems create ‘responsibility gaps’ or lead to a problematic ‘diffusion of responsibility’.

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