{"id":1824,"date":"2025-12-15T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:20:11","slug":"free-will-in-action-in-a-digital-and-ai-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/free-will-in-action-in-a-digital-and-ai-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Will in action in a digital and AI world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1825 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-15-at-17.17.35-300x261.png\" alt=\"ICIS 2025\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-15-at-17.17.35-300x261.png 300w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-15-at-17.17.35-150x131.png 150w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-15-at-17.17.35.png 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In December 2025 Frantz Rowe presented, on behalf of David and Frantz, their latest paper on Free Will in IS, at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: Building on our previous framework for Free Will (2021) we develop an innovative new framework built upon the old information-decision-action (IDA) cycle, which we extend into a more contemporary informating-decision-action-willing cycle (IDAW). Through this framework, we ask: are AI and big tech undermining liberal democracies through technologies that disturb people\u2019s ability to express free will? We lay out the philosophical position on free will known as metaphysical libertarian incompatibilism, following Kane\u2019s and showing how it can be combined with Taylor\u2019s notion of agency. We then examine its differences to political libertarianism, and its alignment with liberal democracies. We briefly present four cases of concern focusing on each of the four dimensions of the framework, where the advent of artificial intelligence in its current form \u2013the surveillance-intention economy brought to us by billionaire political libertarians \u2013 presents, we argue, a potential threat to our ability to experience and express free will.<\/p>\n<p>Kreps, David and Rowe, Frantz, &#8220;Free Will in action in a digital and AI world&#8221; (2025). ICIS 2025 Proceedings. 17.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/aisel.aisnet.org\/icis2025\/is_researchmethods\/is_researchmethods\/17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2025 Frantz Rowe presented, on behalf of David and Frantz, their latest paper on Free Will in IS, at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Abstract: Building&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}