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Abstract
This article critically examines the assumption of ontological continuity between human intelligence and artificial intelligence underlying theories of “strong AI” and contemporary projects of algorethics. Through a critical rereading of Alan Turing’s argument in Computing Machinery and Intelligence, the paper argues that the behavioral analogy between human and machine conduct constitutes a philosophical fallacy that obscures the distinctive features of natural intelligence, namely consciousness, intentionality, and its psycho-biological and social embodiment. While machines can simulate operational patterns of instrumental rationality, they lack genuine world-competence and moral agency. “Strong AI” is therefore interpreted not as the emergence of a machina sapiens, but as the increasingly powerful use of weak AI within processes of social engineering. Consequently, the ethical responsibility for algorithms cannot be delegated to machines: the governance and normative accountability of AI remain entirely human and public.