The next challenge for artificial intelligence is to assist us in making decisions (Decision Making).
Pondering how this transition might occur and what implications it might bring with it puts us in a position to perceive the ethical issue of artificial intelligence as much deeper than it may appear at first superficial approach.
This passage, that of AI guiding us in making decisions, is not only about the laws with which we need to regulate the impact of AI in society, an activity in which governments, the European Commission, and the United Nations are engaged. It is also about a possible role of artificial assistants in conditioning or guiding our individual behavior. Instead of the guardian angel or the tempting devil, will we have an artificial copilot?
This is definitely a sensitive issue on several levels: philosophical, ethical and religious.
If this shift now seems to be clothed in the character of inevitability, the alternative to a distorted use of AI can be conquered, in our view, through a paradigm shift, which we feel the term Extended Intelligence is appropriate.
Through a humanistic approach, in this new paradigm, AI technologies are understood not as a replacement, but as an extension of human intelligence.
Homo Extensus will have to have critical and ethical control of AI, and not be subjected to its ethical and behavioral conditioning.
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