2026· E3S Web of Conferences· Vol 735, pp. 03002· 0 citations· 16 references
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By combining a formalized measure of epistemic integrity – via the Epistemic Integrity Index (EII) – with this normative framework, the paper bridges philosophy, ethics, and policy, offering a new model for understanding and regulating AI’s role in the epistemic dimension of modern conflict.
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast changing civilian and military practice. Although the discussions of AI ethics often address issues of bias, fairness, and/or autonomous weapons, this paper suggests that the epistemic domain is the most urgent problem. Algorithmic manipulation and disinformation, as a kind of epistemic war, account to new ways of war discourses in the context of AI-enabled societies, where the possibility of responsible agency is put at risk. The main argument is that epistemic responsibility has to take priority over technological control in both ethics and policy. The paper shall then propose a new policy orientation that is based on principle of
epistemic jus in bello
: the principle of knowledge-based justness in warfare. This truth is that the integrity of knowledge environments is ethically no lesser urgent than defending civilian lives during kinetic conflict. By combining a formalized measure of epistemic integrity – via the Epistemic Integrity Index (EII) – with this normative framework, the paper bridges philosophy, ethics, and policy, offering a new model for understanding and regulating AI’s role in the epistemic dimension of modern conflict.
In order to live well in an AI-based society, designing technically ethical systems, in the spirit of consequentialism, is not enough; rather, it is essential to cultivate citizens who, as AI users, are endowed with virtues and, first and foremost, the virtue of prudence.
Josep Del-Hierro-Dies, J. Sánchez-Cañizares· Scientia et Fides· 0 citations
It is argued that for advanced AI systems deployed in high-stakes environments the more urgent question may be prudential and strategic, and there is a threshold of evidential and strategic risk beyond which it becomes rationally justified to adopt norms of treatment that include constraints on coercion, deletion, and instrumental use.
It is suggested that ethical reflection on AI in Africa must remain oriented toward the fragile work of nation building, and responsible technological adoption depends less on perfecting accountability structures than on sustained moral attention to how technologies quietly reorganize relationships, shift public values, and redistribute the conditions for living together.
Nwamu Chukwudi Charles· COOU Journal of Arts and Hum...· 0 citations
The Anthropological, Spiritual and Civilizational (ASC) Framework is proposed as a diagnostic heuristic for extending trustworthy AI toward dignity, truth, social justice and humane futures, which requires future empirical and expert validation.
Carlos Alberto Echeverría Mayorga, Marta Irene Flores Polanco, José Miguel Esperanza Amaya· Societies· 0 citations
The expanding role of artificial intelligence in military decision-making poses interpretive challenges for command responsibility under Article 28 of the Rome Statute. Existing scholarship has largely addressed this problem through international humanitarian law and the so-called ‘accountability gap’, leaving its implications for international criminal responsibility underexplored. This article argues that artificial intelligence does not render command responsibility obsolete but requires a more context-sensitive application of its two central elements: knowledge and effective control. It proposes that the ‘should have known’ standard under Article 28(a) be interpreted to encompass risk awareness of AI system limitations, and that effective control extend to the organisational and technological conditions governing AI deployment. These reinterpretations are integrated within a layered model of responsibility operating across operational, command, and institutional levels. The distinction between Article 28(a) and 28(b) also acquires particular significance in AI-enabled contexts, where civilian decision-makers play a growing role in AI procurement.
Md. Sariful Islam· International Criminal Law R...· 0 citations
