Comunicación simbiótica y responsabilidad ética en la era de la IA y del transhumanismo

Abstract

Contemporary communicational environments are undergoing a profound transformation as a result of the incorporation of algorithmic systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced digital technologies, which substantially reconfigure the modes of production, circulation, and interpretation of meaning. In this context, communication can no longer be understood exclusively as a symbolic exchange between human subjects, but rather as a process mediated by technical infrastructures that actively intervene in the visibility of discourses, the hierarchization of information, and the shaping of public opinion. In the so-called era of transhumanism, characterized by the convergence of the human, the technological, and the algorithmic, forms of distributed communicational agency emerge that place tension on traditional ethical and deontological frameworks historically centered on the individual responsibility of the communicator. The automation of content, algorithmic transparency, and the dilution of authorship in complex digital environments call into question fundamental principles such as truthfulness, social responsibility, and the common good. In response to this scenario, the present essay aims to develop a critical theoretical review of ethics and responsibility in contemporary communication through a dialogue between studies on transhumanism, communication, and ethics. Methodologically, a qualitative, theoretical-reflective approach is adopted, grounded in a critical documentary review of specialized academic sources, systematized through an epistemic content matrix. Through this analysis, convergences, tensions, and conceptual gaps surrounding communicational ethics in contexts of advanced technological mediation are identified. The paper argues for the need to rethink social communicational responsibility from a structural and relational perspective, oriented toward a modern deontology capable of responding to the challenges of symbiotic communication and of preserving democratic values, human dignity, and communicational justice in the twenty-first century.