🌍✨ Authenticity in the Age of AI: Charles Taylor’s Ethics in Today’s World ✨🌍
AI can 10× our productivity 🚀 — but the real que
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stion is: does it make us more human, or less?
📖 Philosopher Charles Taylor in The Ethics of Authenticity (1991) warned that modern life pushes us to live “authentically” — to be true to ourselves. Yet this ideal often slips into:
⚠️ Relativism → “everyone has their own truth”
⚠️ Narcissism → living for likes and digital validation
⚠️ Loss of depth → shallow choices without meaning
💡 In the era of AI and capitalism, these dangers are magnified:
🤖 Algorithms curate what we see, shaping identity and choice
💼 Jobs risk automation while profits concentrate in Big Tech
📱 Self-expression becomes a market product, optimized for clicks
👁 Surveillance capitalism mines our personal data for profit
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✅ Where the EU Steps In
The EU AI Act and GDPR give us ethical and legal guardrails:
EU AI Act → bans manipulative AI, requires transparency, and enforces human oversight in high-risk areas like education, jobs, and healthcare.
GDPR → protects our personal data, ensures data minimization, and guarantees citizens’ rights (access, erasure, objection).
Together, they help re-anchor technology within shared moral horizons — what Taylor calls horizons of significance.
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🇲🇹 What This Means for Malta
Malta is small, agile, and well-placed to model human-centered AI adoption. But we face real choices:
🎓 Education → AI tutors must empower teachers & students, not replace dialogue.
🏛 Public services → AI must cut bureaucracy but always allow human appeal routes.
💼 Jobs → AI productivity must fund reskilling, so no one is left behind.
🚦 Mobility & urban AI → Smart systems must respect our culture, heritage & community life.
📢 Citizens → need AI literacy in Maltese & English to truly engage with these systems.
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🔑 Malta’s Roadmap: AI that is 10× with Dignity
✔️ Human oversight, not blind automation
✔️ Shared gains, not concentrated profits
✔️ Dignity and recognition, not just efficiency
✔️ Community dialogue, not fragmented silos
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🌟 SMART Goals for Malta (AI × Ethics × Capitalism):
📌 AI Literacy → Train 25% of adults in AI basics by 2030
📌 AI in Education → AI pilots in 80% of schools by 2027
📌 Job Transition → Reskill 60% of workers displaced by AI by 2030
📌 Ethical Oversight → MDIA publishes annual AI compliance reports by 2026
📌 Inclusive Mobility → Launch AI transport pilots with citizen forums by 2028
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🔮 Charles Taylor reminds us: Authenticity is not about “doing your own thing” — it’s about living true to yourself within a community and shared values.
👉 If Malta gets this right, we can model a Mediterranean human-centered AI economy, showing how small nations can lead with ethics, responsibility, and dignity at the core of AI.
📌 Explore more on: aiinmalta.com
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