Abstract

[Advantages and Implications of a Soft-Ethics Approach to Artificial Intelligence in the Fight against Climate Change] AI studies can be enhanced from a meta-ethical perspective, choosing as the privileged field of analysis the fundamental principles and the moral theories that configure deontic categories or, alternatively, through a legal-philosophical investigation applied “to scenarios of living” and directed towards new boundaries between ethics and law. This essay aims to focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence in relation to climate change and, in particular, on the potential epistemic and practical advantages that stem from a soft-ethics approach to the use of techno-scientific devices in the fight against climate change. A relevant methodological premise for the analysis starts from the interaction between an interdisciplinary scientific understanding of climate disruption and a rights-based approach. The article also intends to highlight how the rethinking of measures to combat climate change can be the basis for policy choices aimed at promoting the social value of AI systems. In this regard, the text will delve into a bio- ethical reading of AI and its implications for philosophical and legal discourse, specifically by examining the potential transition from a vision based on “climate law” to the idea of the relevance of legal subjects.