ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF RESPONSIBILITY: THE NEW BOUNDARIES OF ETHICS

Abstract

The article philosophically analyses the issues of responsibility, morality, and ethical decision- making that arise in the context of the development of artificial intelligence (AI). The author focuses on the distribution of responsibility between humans and technological agents, as well as on the nature of intention and moral values. The main objective is to examine whether artificial systems are capable of making moral decisions and to show how this relates to the ethical position of the human being. The study compares the behavioural models of AI with the particularities of human consciousness and evaluates the integration of technology into ethical principles along with its social implications. The author notes that as AI advances, the concept of morality acquires not only an individual but also a systemic character; that is, responsibility becomes the joint product of human–machine interaction rather than belonging solely to a single agent. At the same time, adopting a posthumanist perspective, the article questions the central position of the human and explores the possibility of technological entities occupying a place within the moral order. Thus, artificial intelligence is presented not merely as a technical phenomenon but as a philosophical event that stimulates the emergence of a new moral paradigm.