Human Status and Digitalhumanism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This study reconstructs the question of human existence in the age of artificial intelligence within a historical and philosophical framework, and explores the reconfiguration of human status through digitalhumanism. It examines the transition from a subordinated being in the medieval period to an autonomous subject in modernity, critically addressing the limits of anthropocentrism. It further analyzes both the voluntary shift in human status through posthumanist discourse and the involuntary transformation driven by artificial intelligence encroaching upon human domains such as labor, communication, and cognition. In response to these dual transformations, the study proposes the indeterminacy of the human as the foundation of digitalhumanism. Drawing on Karen Barad’s agential realism, the human is understood as a relationally constituted being whose boundaries are formed through intra-action with artificial intelligence. The study highlights response-ability as a key ethical practice, emphasizing the need for humans to sustain autonomous judgment and engagement rather than delegating them to AI. Ultimately, it presents digitalhumanism as a framework for actively reconstituting hum