Inbetweenism: Why Our Concepts Reach Their Limits When It Comes to Generative AI

Recent technological leaps in Artificial Intelligence have led to new types of human-machine interactions that challenge the application of our existing ethical approaches: It is not clear what status should be assigned to the new artificial systems.

With a dichotomous framework distinguishing mere tools from social agents, one has only two options – either all artificial systems are mere tools and don´t have an ethical status, or some may be treated like living agents with an ethical statu...