ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 opens the final section covering the theme of ethics. The focus here is on the discourses on ethics currently emerging in artificial intelligence in the wider sense of the term. As such research has shown, there is a need to assess the normative functions that automation plays. The posthumanist idea of ethics is utilized to suggest a reorientation from the humanist values re-emerging in ethics discourse in relation to AI. This implies a shift in focus from the general discipline on AI ethics towards addressing relations at the human-nonhuman continuum as they are enabled via automation. This need is here also connected back to the discourses in Chapter two, regarding the shifting focus and role of jurisprudence under digitalization. Consequently, this chapter returns more deeply to questions of normativity, by moving through and beyond discourses of AI ethics that are currently unfolding. The notion and use of affect (human, nonhuman and other variations) and affective governance is here furthermore identified as a particular theme for advocating AI ethics in a more posthumanist way.
