The article examines Luciano Floridi’s ethical framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI). By analyzing six international documents on the ethics of technology, he identifies five ethical principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and explainability—out of the forty-seven principles mentioned in those documents, and considers them essential for fostering public trust and sound policymaking in human societies.
While emphasizing the threats posed by AI—such as the erosion of human skills, elimination of human responsibility, decline of control, and loss of the capacity for self-determination—he also points to opportunities, including the enhancement of agency, self-fulfillment, and social cohesion. The article also presents critiques of this framework from the perspectives of Islamic ethics and existentialist philosophy, noting, for instance, that autonomy in Islamic thought is confined within divine boundaries and is not absolute.
Furthermore, the article argues that reducing the forty-seven principles to five is misguided, as it obscures ethical conflicts and diminishes the possibility of effective implementation. The author concludes that AI ethics requires a multi-layered and context-sensitive framework that can be adapted to practical, social, and cultural needs.