Artificial intelligence has become commonplace in various aspects of life, impacting decisions from daily activities to important life choices. While existing literature in AI ethics tends to focus on moral issues like fairness and responsibility or the effects of automation on well-being, a new concern emerges: the potential erosion of life's meaningfulness due to AI's pervasive role. A concept introduced is the "meaningfulness gap," which examines the implications of outsourcing meaningful tasks to machines. This gap signifies a crucial area in AI ethics that deserves more attention alongside traditional ethical considerations.
The core idea of the "meaningfulness gap" posits that many activities in life hold intrinsic value beyond well-being or moral obligations—they are meaningful and contribute to a good life.
If meaningful activities are outsourced to machines, individuals may lose the opportunity to decide, create, and act, leading to a disappearance of meaning alongside the tasks.
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