Ma`rifat Falsafi

Due to the concerns over the potential threat artificial intelligence poses to human and moral values, UNESCO has recently drafted and adopted a document entitled "Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence". This document outlines certain goals, values, and norms, and calls upon member states -including Iran- to implement its provisions within their respective countries. International organizations seek to align the laws and values of societies with their own by adopting such high-level policy documents. The main issue addressed in this study is the compatibility or incompatibility of the ethical value foundations presented in the aforementioned recommendation with the moral principles of the Islamic school of thought, with a particular emphasis on the ideas of Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi. This focus is due to his comprehensive and distinctive theory on moral philosophy and the objective of ethics. The present study first employs a descriptive method to explain the global ethical concerns arising from artificial intelligence technologies. It then adopts an analytical approach to examine various dimensions, including the distinction between weak and strong AI, the different types of AI ethics, the comparison between virtue ethics and action-based ethics, and the analysis of the source of moral values in the recommendation-based ethics. Ultimately, the study demonstrates that the Recommendation is grounded in contractualism and, in terms of both subject and objective, reflects an action-oriented ethics. However, the Islamic ethical theory falls under the realist schools of thought and, according to the virtue-oriented philosophy of some scholars, including Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi, it is teleological and perfectionist in nature. Ultimately, the proposed solution in AI ethics is to evaluate the use of such new technologies according to the criterion of drawing closer to God.