Which ethics for the ethics of artificial intelligence?

Contemporary development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is not without ethics. In fact, we are witnessing an increase in ethical charters and initiatives. However, this completely leaves in the shadows the question of the implicit background to our ethical reflection: the temporal and spatial framing of ethics. The article begins by highlighting the fact that certain individuals are attempting to impose a vision of the future, with some authors even speaking of the “colonization of the future”. Second, it emphasizes the fact that ethical discussions on AI are frequently influenced by narratives that impose a scenography on reflection, namely the relationship between man and machine, which is localized and extracted from an organizational and social context. This temporal and spatial framing shapes the way we ask ethical questions and focuses our attention on certain elements of the situation. At the same time, it constitutes an “off-field”. This article invites us to develop an “ethics of attention”: Beyond the question of which ethical principles to mobilize, what do we pay attention to when considering the ethics of AI?