The Dataist Turn and the Authorship Crisis: An Ethical Reconstruction of Epistemic Agency Confronting Generative Artificial Intelligence
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.21.26178.011Abstract
Considering the advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), this article addresses the crisis of authorship and intellectual honesty in humanities research. The aim is to reflect on how the dataist turn and the functionalities of GAI strain traditional concepts of authorship and investigative individuality. Through a conceptual and ethical analysis, the study highlights the displacement of the author as a sovereign subject towards a probabilistic logic, grounded in pre-existing documentary and cultural resources. By exploring the tension between interpretive and algorithmic truth, the work warns of the risk of cognitive disqualification. As a result, it proposes the reconstruction of epistemic agency under the inactivist paradigm and an anthropocentric approach to decision-making. It concludes that technology should function as a technical scaffolding and tool that, under a Socratic approach, enhances critical reflection, ethical judgment, and the moral responsibility of the researcher.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence ethics. Humanities research. Intellectual production.
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