Philosophy and Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Human Values

Abstract

The wide deployment of artificial intelligence triggers fundamental changes to social patterns and financial operations and technological applications while generating unknown ethical and philosophical domains. This evaluation examines the AI-normative relationship through an analysis of fundamental thinking principles that change due to machine intelligence including consciousness and moral agency and free will and personhood. This paper evaluates utilitarianism together with deontology and virtue ethics and care ethics to determine their effectiveness and limitations in guiding AI behavior across healthcare and education and finance and defence sectors. The paper devotes extensive study to both the ethical issues stemming from biased algorithms and hidden decision processes and complications arising from ethical differences and dangerous autonomous system operation scenarios. This research shows how inequality appears during global AI implementations to justify ethical frameworks which defend human dignity while being culturally understandable to all groups and socially just. The combination of philosophy with technology practice transforms ethics-by-design into an essential development method that embeds moral reasoning capabilities within artificial intelligence development processes. The research examines superintelligence ethical possibilities and lethal weapons and human-AI unity systems by recommending new governance systems that demand interdisciplinary collaboration. The research defines a innovative model for AI progress which integrates human value-based strategies with regulatory action. This research advances current ethical discussions about AI governance by providing an extensive framework for AI ethical oversight in the twenty-first century.