Humanism, dehumanization, integral human development: an overview of boundaries and capabilities of human-centered artificial intelligence in business and organizations

The chapter focuses on the main threats of dehumanization posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Business organizations involved in its design and deployment at large. By highlighting dehumanization as an overarching ethical concern, it argues for humanistic ethics as the main suitable approach to solve everyday ethical dilemmas, arising for decision-makers faced with AI related moral possible shortcomings. It focuses on developers’ social and ethical responsibilities to ensure moral design of AI by assessing moral boundaries of desirable technological innovation and its social purposes. Furthermore, it assesses personal, organizational and stakeholder relationships level practices, informed by humanistic ethics. By this way, it proposes a framework able to evaluate AI adoption in light of human flourishing and integral human development. The latter approach is identified and discussed as opposed to non-humanistic ethical streams currently informing ethics of AI debate.