AI and Phronesis

Abstract We argue that the growing prevalence of statistical machine learning in everyday decision making – from creditworthiness to police force allocation effectively replaces many our humdrum practical judgments and this will eventually undermine capacit y for such judgments. lean on Aristotle’s famous account how phronesis moral virtues develop make case. If Aristotle is right habitual exercise judgment allows us incrementally hone virtues, if AI saves time by taking over some those judgments, or its pattern recognition capacities are very good at kind behavior we risk innovating ourselves out competence with introduction AI.