The Digital Turn: Between the Conquests of the Technological Revolution and the Apprehensions of Axiological Values- Towards a Philosophical Questioning of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

There is no doubt that human history has witnessed, throughout its ages, numerous industrial revolutions that express the active human self, seeking development and prosperity. The three industrial revolutions directly changed agricultural and economic conditions through the inventions they brought. However, the fourth revolution distinguished itself from its predecessors by its strong connection to digital knowledge and computerized data, more than any other field. It was thus called the digital revolution. The digital revolution is one of the achievements of the current century, with its rapid technological breakthroughs and innovations, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, digital platforms, and fast communication networks. These technologies have quickly penetrated all fields and areas, including politics, economics, education, health, and others, thus revealing numerous horizons and opportunities for progress and prosperity for human transformation.

But these rapid developments, day after day, were accompanied by many critical philosophical questions that resulted in fears and apprehensions about the increasing applications of this technology, which seeks to build a new world with current components and concepts without any moral or legal restraint, which raised a continuous philosophical concern about the nature of these technologies and the conceptual apparatus on which they operate, as well as the nature of the relationship between it and the ethical question that is primarily circumvented by global ethical charters and humanitarian legal treaties. Based on this troubling philosophical foundation, this study emerged as a philosophical approach that attempts to shed light on the nature of the philosophical obsession underlying this digital shift, and to deconstruct the role of the value dimension that seeks to keep pace with it, thereby revealing the position of moral values in this technological luxury.

 At the end of this study, we conclude that it is necessary to activate philosophical criticism behind every technological discovery that appears, and to keep pace with it, whether at the level of concepts or positions, with the necessity of taking into account the axiological dimension by respecting human values and adhering to ethical charters and laws to limit blind submission to the authority of what is known as techno-scientific.