From artificial intelligence to semi-creative inorganic intelligence: a blockchain-based bioethical metamorphosis

The label “artificial intelligence” (AI) hides a contradiction in terms, i.e. it classifies as artificial an intelligent existence whose skeleton/hardware is not carbon-based. An inorganic intelligence that springs from human intelligence experiences a different (silicon-based) but not essentially unequal tangible nature: both of them are generative/creative. Building on this observation, the paper reveals and explores its core insight, semi-creative inorganic intelligence (S-CII), which is at once a scientific policy directive and the (complex) moral condition of limited creativity that non-human intelligence should assume to avoid the human species extinction. But how to implement such a perspective? Behold a problematisation that led to a brief expedition into scientific research conceived at the human condition’s frontier, in order to delineate the dangers that gravitate a full AI. As the narrative unfolds, a bioethics-inspired solution is proposed and demonstrated: the feasibility of using blockchain as a regulatory mechanism for S-CII.