Philosophy of Information: Floridi's Framework and What It Means for AI Governance

Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information reframes reality as fundamentally informational, and recasts humans, AI agents, and devices as ‘inforgs’ — interconnected informational organisms sharing a single environment he calls the infosphere.

This briefing walks through the core concepts (informational ontology, onlife, information ethics) and connects them to concrete AI governance challenges: distributed agency and accountability, data sovereignty, and preserving human agency as AI systems become more autonomous.

Attribution: this briefing summarizes Luciano Floridi's published work; the underlying ideas and terminology originate with him.