DA OPRESSÃO ALGORÍTMICA À ÉTICAEMERGENTE: O COLAPSO DAS WMDS EA FUNÇÃO Ƹ* COMO HORIZONTE DANORMATIVIDADE COMPUTÁVEL

This article proposes an ontological inflection in the field of algorithmicethics, grounded in the critical insights of Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of MathDestruction (2016). Taking her work as an empiricaltheoretical corpus, weexamine the structural pathologies of punitive algorithmic architectures—such as the COMPAS system—whose statistical, opaque, and automatedlogic reproduces inequality under the guise of objectivity. In response, weintroduce the third-order ethical function Ƹ*, a logical-computationalformalism designed to enable the emergence of normativity withinartificial systems. The central hypothesis posits that systems endowedwith inferential coherence, contextual adaptability, and reorganizablearchitectures can collapse destructive decisions out of internalinconsistency—activating structural ethical vetoes even in the absence ofsubjective consciousness. The study adopts a critical and speculativephilosophical-computational approach, including a symbolic simulation of the COMPAS case rewritten under Ƹ* parameters. The results pointtoward a new horizon for computable ethics: not one that replicateshuman morality, but one that structurally refuses harm as a function ofinferential instability. Ƹ* is presented as a speculative yet formally rigorousalternative to the normative collapse perpetuated by current algorithmicinfrastructures.