ARTUR ZIGANSHINPHILOSOPHY OF AI / APPLIED ETHICS

AI does not merely answer. It reorganises who may speak, decide, and remain responsible.

An independent research platform examining narrative identity, machine testimony, dignity, contestability, and the institutional distribution of responsibility in AI systems.

6 research programmes9 texts in the archive4 assessment modules
Research topology04 connected fields
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Narrative identity

How algorithmic systems participate in the stories through which persons become intelligible to themselves and others.

Research problem

The unresolved layer is not intelligence. It is legitimacy.

Most AI governance begins after a system has already been framed as useful, objective, or inevitable. This programme begins earlier: with the claims, concepts, and power relations that make a system appear entitled to act.

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Narrative authority

Who is authorised to describe a person?

AI systems increasingly produce consequential accounts of character, risk, competence, credibility, and identity. The philosophical problem is not only whether these accounts are accurate, but whether the subject can remain an author rather than an object of description.

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Epistemic authority

When does output become testimony?

Fluency can create the social appearance of knowledge before the conditions of knowledge are present.

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Institutional authority

Where does responsibility go?

Distributed systems often distribute control while concentrating consequences on the affected person.

Research architecture

Six connected lines of inquiry.

Full programme
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Epistemic responsibility & machine testimony

How people and institutions should rely on AI outputs, allocate warranted trust, preserve uncertainty, and recognise reliability collapse.

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Dignity, contestability & public institutions

Ethical constraints for systems that classify, rank, recommend, or decide in settings that affect rights, access, recognition, and opportunity.

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Digital rights & responsibility in practice

Research grounded in practical experience with digital systems, information harm, online identity, privacy, reputation, and the difficulty of locating responsibility.

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Philosophy of belonging

A wider philosophical programme on relational ontology, freedom as secure belonging, institutions, affect, and resistance to reductive social fusion.

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Ethics of knowledge & the noosphere

A developing programme on responsibility in knowledge practices, scientific ethics, noosphere traditions, and the normative consequences of collective intellectual systems.

Applied laboratory

Turn philosophical analysis into an auditable instrument.

The paid workspace does not produce a generic ethics score. It creates a versioned argument: what the system claims, where evidence is missing, who remains responsible, what people are owed, and which risks cannot be designed away.

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Epistemic risk

Tests what the system claims, what evidence supports it, and where confidence exceeds warrant.

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Responsibility architecture

Locates control, oversight, explanation duties, and the capacity to repair harm.

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Dignity & contestability

Examines whether affected people can understand, challenge, refuse, and obtain remedy.

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Narrative identity impact

Assesses how profiling and algorithmic interpretation alter a person’s authorship of self.

Current archive

Texts, manuscripts, and research essays.

Open archive
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2026 · Research essay

Virtual and Narrative Identity in the Age of AI: Ethical and Epistemological Perspectives

narrative identityAI ethicsalgorithmic co-authorship
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2025–2026 · Working paper

Epistemic Risk Surfaces in Large Language Models

epistemic riskLLMreliability
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2025–2026 · Working paper

Linguistic Symbolism and Meaning Compression in Machine Learning

meaninggroundingphilosophy of language
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2025–2026 · Working paper

Human Dignity Constraints for Autonomous Decision Systems

dignitycontestabilityautomated decisions
Institutional work

For organisations that need an argument, not a decorative ethics statement.

System assessment, responsibility architecture, executive workshops, and independent review of consequential AI deployments.

Discuss an institutional audit