ABSTRACT. This paper entertains the idea of a biodigital concept of wisdom conceived as an ecosystem. The biodigital ecosystem model offers a new way of thinking about the generation and application of knowledge and wisdom in the 21st century. First, the biodigital ecosystem is a fusion of biology and information providing a generative, organic, dynamic living system as a basis for the model of wisdom. Second, it is an intelligent network that emphasizes the importance of knowledge flows and exchanges. Third, it understands that data, information, and knowledge are all part of an knowledge ecosystem and play their role and that there are a range of complex relationships that are determined at the human level through the development of a set of social relations that comprise “knowledge cultures” that assumes knowledge and the value of knowledge are rooted in social relations and increasingly in human-machine socio-technological relations. Knowledge cultures may emphasize these two sets of relations and the growing importance of machine-machine relations in the cultivation and management of different types of intelligence: human intelligence, at the individual and group level; forms of collective intelligence; augmented intelligence; and machine intelligence, or more precisely system intelligence (“smart systems”). Fourth, these forms of intelligence make up the layers of complex relationships across the human-machine interface that require different inputs and provide different outputs, constituting the biodigital feedback loops that represents the circulation at the system level functioning as an ecosystem that is both self-sustaining and autonomous, seeking its own balance and fulfilment in relation to ultimate ethical goals of human well-being and flourishing. This paper explores these ideas as basis for the alignment of AI with human values.
JEL codes: E24; J21; J54; J64

Keywords: wisdom; biodigital; ecosystem; intelligent network; knowledge cultures; alignment

How to cite: Peters, M. A. (2024). “The Biodigital Ecosystem of Wisdom and the Alignment of Human Values,” Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management 12(1): 7–22. doi: 10.22381/pihrm12120241.

Received 16 January 2024 • Received in revised form 2 May 2024
Accepted 5 May 2024 • Available online 25 May 2024