Human Agency, Transparency, Accountability, Fairness, Sustainability
The Last Line of Defense for Existing as Humans in the Age of Replication
AI now imitates human language, draws pictures, and creates music. We witness technology invading areas once uniquely human. The question is clear: "In this world, what must humans be?" Technology cannot be stopped, but losing humanity while being swept by technology must be prevented. The five AI ethics principles for AI times:
(1) Primacy of Humanity: The final agent for creation, decision-making, and responsibility must always be human. AI can remember, combine, and imitate but cannot experience pain, regret, love, or forgive. "Creation is not a simple result but a record of living choices. Only those who can choose can create." (2) Transparency: AI's operating principles and training data must be thoroughly transparent. Opaque technology destroys trust, undermines democracy, and violates human dignity. "Transparent technology — that is the minimum condition of trust." (3) Accountability: The final responsibility for AI errors, discrimination, and side effects must rest with humans. "The developer who made the tool is responsible; the user of the tool is responsible. When this basic principle collapses, society collapses into machine rule." (4) Fairness: AI is not neutral — all AI is trained by given data and designer choices. Biased data produces discriminatory results. "AI fairness is social fairness. Ignoring biased technology is violence against humans." (5) Sustainability: Creators are not mere labor — they are beings who accumulate human experience, connect social memory, and sustain civilization. "An AI ecosystem without humans ultimately isolates technology itself." The five AI ethics principles are not declarations — they are survival declarations. "Not the selfish drive that denies human existence for profit, but preserving the minimum dignity of existing as human." "In the age of replication, exist as human."
