The Seven Deadly Sins of Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence is transforming knowledge production, education, professional practice, communication, and decision-making, creating opportunities for innovation while introducing significant ethical, social, economic, and environmental challenges. Understanding these transformations requires examining not only technological capabilities but also the human expectations, institutional incentives, and power structures that shape their development and use. Seven traditional categories of human excess provide a conceptual framework for critically analyzing the tensions associated with artificial intelligence without attributing moral agency to technological systems. Pride addresses algorithmic authority, misplaced confidence, and the acceptance of automated outputs without adequate verification. Greed examines the concentration of technological power, data ownership, economic benefits, and inequalities in access. Lust explores excessive fascination with artificial interaction, anthropomorphism, emotional dependence, and the limits of personalization. Envy focuses on imitation, impersonation, intellectual authorship, and the authenticity of generated content. Gluttony considers the environmental implications of computational infrastructure, resource consumption, and excessive digital production. Wrath analyzes automated disinformation, digital violence, harmful manipulation, and human responsibility for technological misuse. Sloth investigates cognitive dependence, intellectual disengagement, and the consequences of delegating learning and decision-making processes. Through a critical synthesis of interdisciplinary research and conceptual analysis, these dimensions are connected to questions of accountability, autonomy, sustainability, and social justice. The discussion emphasizes the importance of evidence-based evaluation, contextual interpretation, and meaningful human oversight. Responsible technological development ultimately requires preserving the capacities to verify information, choose alternatives, terminate interactions, acknowledge contributions, establish reasonable limits, and correct harmful outcomes. These principles support a human-centered approach that balances technological innovation with critical judgment, ethical responsibility, and institutional accountability.

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Book title

The Seven Deadly Sins of Artificial Intelligence

Book subtitle

Uses, excesses and dilemmas of a technology that amplifies our decisions

Authors

José Enrique Hernández de la Cruz, Libardo Ramón Polanía, Verenice Sánchez Castillo, Yasniel Sánchez Suárez, Camilo Enrique Barragán Morales, Alfredo Javier Pérez Gamboa, Fabio Edisson Morera Forero, Juan Manuel Andrade Navia, Elvia María Jiménez Zapata, Carlos Alberto Gómez Cano, Juan Ernesto Pérez-Pérez

DOI

https://doi.org/10.62486/978-9915-9928-6-0

Publisher

South American Publishing

Imprint

South American Publishing

ISBN

978-9915-9928-6-0 (eBook, Spanish)
978-9915-9928-7-7 (Softcover, Spanish)

Published

2026-10-10

Language

Spanish

Edition number

1

Publication type

monograph

Subject area

Social Sciences & Humanities

BISAC

COM004000 (Primary)
COM100000
SOC071000
PHI005000

THEMA

UYQ
UBJ
JBFV5

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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© 2026 The Authors