Metaverso da imaginação e os riscos da banalização de cenários de violação aos direitos humanos

Abstract

The present work approach a peculiar possibility of human rights violations in single-person environments of virtual and sensorial hyper-reality, in which scenarios and characters are created that are extremely similar to real humans, both in physical and emotional aspects, in order to allow the individual experiences that find limits only in imagination, language and technology. This environment was called the metaverse of imagination, whose characteristic is that it is managed in a standalone manner, without the intention of sharing with third parties, so that the individual can fully exercise a fundamental right, brought by the Spaniard José Ortega y Gasset, called the right to human self-absorption. This intertwining between imagination and reality gave rise to the following research problem: There is a risk of weakening the protection of human rights due to the trivialization of scenarios of war, terrorism, torture, crimes against sexual dignity, slavery or holocaust, used for entertainment, curiosity or self-absorption. human, within the metaverse of imagination, even when restricted to a private environment and with no intention of dissemination or sharing? Along these lines, the general objective of this work was to identify whether the trivialization of evil, experienced with the strength and vividness of a memory, at a level of hyper-reality, is capable of weakening the protection of human rights and some of the democratic pillars such as otherness, dialogue and critical thinking. The specific objectives were to describe what the imagination metaverse is and its possibilities of use, debate the relationship between memory, imagination and human rights, analyze how artificial intelligence has been used to weaken democracy and, finally, identify how to mitigate the risks of a technology as powerful as the metaverse of imagination. Considering the characteristics of the theme, the hypotheticaldeductive method was adopted with methodological cutouts that delimit the metaverse of imagination to scenarios with express violation of human rights, ruling out any other scenario, even if deontologically interesting. The theoretical framework was chosen to pave the technological basis of the work with Matthew Ball, Suart Russel and Peter Norvig, the philosophical part with Gilbert Durand, David Hume, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Sandel, Peter Heidegger and Robert Alexy, and the political part with Francisco Callejón, Byung-Chul Han, Sloterdijk and Hannah Arendt. State of the art of legal instruments that aim to regulate artificial intelligence was also used. In the end, the result of this study demonstrated that the metaverse of imagination is an extremely enchanting digital entertainment environment that will inevitably be part of many people's lives, promoting vivid contours to the imagination, in a clear exercise of the fundamental right to human self-absorption, of intimate nature, and the State must mitigate the risk of its misuse, as its influence transcends the individual, causing risks to society and the democratic rule of law. To this end, it is suggested that a new rule be included in Asimov's Laws, determining that suppliers program artificial intelligence with locks when forced to be the victim of acts of express and unequivocal violation of human rights.