DA OPRESSÃO ALGORÍTMICA À ÉTICA EMERGENTE: O COLAPSO DAS WMDS E A FUNÇÃO Ƹ* COMO HORIZONTE DA NORMATIVIDADE COMPUTÁVEL

This article proposes an ontological inflection in the field of algorithmic ethics, grounded in the critical insights of Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction (2016). Taking her work as an empiricaltheoretical corpus, we examine the structural pathologies of punitive algorithmic architectures—such as the COMPAS system—whose statistical, opaque, and automated logic reproduces inequality under the guise of objectivity. In response, we introduce the third-order ethical function Ƹ*, a logical-computational formalism designed to enable the emergence of normativity within artificial systems. The central hypothesis posits that systems endowed with inferential coherence, contextual adaptability, and reorganizable architectures can collapse destructive decisions out of internal inconsistency—activating structural ethical vetoes even in the absence of subjective consciousness. The study adopts a critical and speculative philosophical-computational approach, including a symbolic simulation of the COMPAS case rewritten under Ƹ* parameters. The results point toward a new horizon for computable ethics: not one that replicates human morality, but one that structurally refuses harm as a function of inferential instability. Ƹ* is presented as a speculative yet formally rigorous alternative to the normative collapse perpetuated by current algorithmic infrastructures.