Artificial intelligence and interface design shape human behavior through embedded assumptions about what is good, desirable, and true. These systems require confronting the moral frameworks behind technologies influencing modern life. Catholicism has long addressed similar problems and offers philosophical depth for ethical grounding. Efforts to build universal ethical frameworks for interface design raise the question of what “universal” means. A framework based on Western UX principles can be organized into five pillars: Inclusion, Autonomy, Transparency, Privacy, and Well-Being. Without transcendent grounding, ethical systems can drift toward relativism, reducing moral claims to negotiated preferences and cultural consensus.
"Artificial intelligence and interface design both shape human behavior through embedded assumptions about what is good, desirable, and true. In doing so, they force a confrontation with the moral frameworks underlying the technologies increasingly influencing modern life. It is precisely the kind of problem Catholicism has wrestled with for centuries and one for which it offers remarkable philosophical depth."
"As the project continues to evolve, I increasingly realize that attempting to construct any universal ethical framework inevitably raises a deeper philosophical question: universal according to who? My original approach is, admittedly, somewhat philosophically ambiguous. I justify the framework by arguing that its values are derived from familiar UX principles rooted in Western moral philosophy."
"Those ideas are distilled into five pillars: Inclusion, Autonomy, Transparency, Privacy, and Well-Being. But the more I examine these principles, the more I realize that ethical systems detached from transcendent grounding inevitably drift toward relativism, where moral claims become reducible to negotiated preferences, cultural consensus, i"
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