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    Published: 2025-12-12
    Vol. 15 (2025)

    Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – facts and perspectives

    prof. dr hab. Piotr Jan Morciniec
    Family Forum
    Section: Rodzina, edukacja i sztuczna inteligencja / Family, education and artificial intelligence
    DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/FF/5800

    Abstract

    Research context: The dynamic development of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised the modern era, bringing with it both enormous benefits and increasing ethical and social risks. A moral reflection on its applications, implications, and consequences is therefore justified.
    Research objective: The main aim of the article is to establish moral frameworks for the functioning of AI by distinguishing human intelligence from machine intelligence and by analysing who actually bears ethical responsibility for AI’s actions, thereby identifying the subject of moral responsibility.
    Research method: The study employs desk research, i.e., an analysis of existing data, including selected documents and studies addressing ethical aspects of AI use, with particular attention given to the activity in this field of the pope of the “digital revolution,” Leo XIV. Comparative analysis was also used: ethical principles of AI identified by a selected chatbot were juxtaposed with definitions of morality and ethics, and approaches to the issue were compared in the Vatican’s Nota Antiqua et nova and the EU’s AI Act.
    Results: It was established that AI cannot act morally because it is not a human subject (a person), which means that programmers and users, not machines, ultimately bear responsibility for its use and any potential harm.
    Conclusions: It is necessary for the development of AI to place human dignity at its center and to be grounded in strong ethical frameworks and legal regulations, so that the benefits of this technology outweigh the risks, such as deepening loneliness, undermining the right to work, autonomous AI decisions in military actions, or the educational danger of questioning the rationality of the human subject.

    Keywords:

    ethics of artificial intelligence, dignity of the human person, moral responsibility, anthropomorphization of machines, Nota Antiqua et Nova, AI Act, digital revolution, threats associated with AI

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    Morciniec, P. J. (2025). Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – facts and perspectives. Family Forum, 15, 127–144. https://doi.org/10.25167/FF/5800

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