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The Corporeal Commandment: Levinas’s Prophecy That Goodness Cannot Be Coded
In the frantic race to build ‘ethical AI,’ we are haunted by a single, seductive promise: that goodness can be engineered, that morality can be reduced to an algorithm, and that a machine can be taught to care. But what if this entire project is built on a catastrophic misunderstanding of what it means to be good? The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas offers a chilling and profound counter-narrative, a warning that our technological ambition has blinded us to the true source of ethics. For Levinas, goodness is not a problem to be solved by code, but a terrifying, infinite demand that erupts…
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