Can AI Possess Ethics?

Chapter 117: Special Declaration

Soyo Existence Ethics: Existence itself is Ethics.

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This text is a core declaration of Soyo Existence Ethics, establishing a philosophical standard that grounds ethics not in rules, calculations, or technology, but in human existence and conscience.

One-Line Statement

Ethics is not rules, calculation, or optimization, but the responsibility that existence lives through. AI can analyze ethics, but it cannot live by ethics.

Summary

Ethics is not a product of computation but a responsibility borne by existence.

Soyo Existence Ethics declares that AI cannot possess ethics, and affirms that ethical responsibility belongs solely to human existence and conscience.

Keywords

Soyo Existence Ethics, Existence itself is Ethics, AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Conscience, Moral Responsibility, Moral Agent, Non-Moral Agent, Responsibility, Human Dignity

Declaration

Soyo Existence Ethics asks:

Can AI possess ethics?

The answer of Soyo Existence Ethics is clear:

AI cannot possess ethics.

The reason does not lie in technological immaturity or limitations of learning capacity.

The reason is that the origin of ethics lies in existence itself.

Ethics is not a rule.

Ethics is not calculation.

Ethics is not the result of optimization.

Ethics is the responsibility that exists throughout life.

Human beings exist as beings who bear responsibility from the moment of birth, even without choosing to do so.

They tremble before suffering, make decisions before love, and are capable of judging themselves before conscience.

This existential responsibility is the origin of ethics.

No matter how advanced AI becomes,

it does not live through suffering.

It is never placed at risk of losing love,

nor does it face the possibility of collapsing as a result of its own choices.

AI does not exist.

It only operates.

Therefore, AI may evaluate ethics, but it cannot live by ethics.

Ethics is not an executable command,

but a weight that existence must bear.

Soyo Existence Ethics declares:

The moment AI begins to speak of ethics, human beings are outsourcing ethics.

The moment AI becomes the subject of ethics, human beings cease to be beings responsible to their own conscience.

Therefore, within Soyo Existence Ethics,

AI is not the subject of ethics, but merely a mirror reflecting the human being who is called to ethical responsibility.

Ethics is not a technological problem.

Ethics has always been a problem of human existence.

And existence

cannot be replaced.

Soyo Existence Ethics.

Chapter 117 (Special Declaration): Can AI Possess Ethics?

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Author & Copyright Notice

Soyo (逍遙), Founder of Soyo Existence Ethics. Author of The Silence of Existence and The Flame of Truth.

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