Saeideh Sadat Shahidi; Seyed Ali Mirlohi
Abstract
.This research explores the challenge of "moral agency" in Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the lens of "Nature" in Ayatollah Shahabadi's philosophical mysticism. While dominant ...
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.This research explores the challenge of "moral agency" in Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the lens of "Nature" in Ayatollah Shahabadi's philosophical mysticism. While dominant AI ethics paradigms focus on computational, utilitarian, or reinforcement learning models, this paper raises the fundamental question: can an artificial system devoid of divine "Fitrat" possess genuine moral understanding and agency, or is it merely simulating morality?. Using a descriptive-analytical method, the study first explicates the foundations of Fitrat as the root of moral intuition in Shahabadi's thought, emphasizing five intuitive references: knowledge, love, discovery, comfort, and freedom . Findings indicate that human moral agency is grounded in "presential knowledge" and an "intrinsic inclination toward perfection". Conversely, the technical analysis reveals that current AI models, relying on mathematical "objective functions" and statistical correlations, lack the conceptual infrastructure for semantic understanding and moral intuition . Through a comparative analysis, the article argues that due to the absence of inner consciousness and innate inclination, AI is, at best, a "simulated moral agent" or a "stochastic parrot" that merely reproduces the appearance of moral behavior. Ultimately, this fundamental distinction between "Innate Ethics" and "Algorithmic Ethics" necessitates redefining AI as a subservient tool rather than an autonomous agent in technological governance.
