Fear Is Not Structure: Why Rejecting AI Is Not Enough to Preserve Human Judgement

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As awareness of AI’s threat to human judgement spreads, societies may increasingly turn toward AI rejection movements. While emotionally and ethically understandable, such rejections—unless grounded in structural philosophical insight—risk becoming another form of judgemental collapse. This paper argues that affective or ideological resistance to AI, without structural reconstruction of judgement itself, does not preserve human decision-making agency. Drawing on the Judgemental Triad framework, we show that true preservation of human judgement lies not in abstaining from AI, but in selectively reconstructing its role. We provide sociological predictions, philosophical analysis, and actionable design principles for sustaining judgement in the age of post-human computation.

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Jinho Kim
Seoul National University

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