The Spanish-Language Text Your AI Ethics Course Has Been Missing

631 HSIs. Almost no rigorous AI ethics material in Spanish.

Hispanic-Serving Institutions enroll more than 60% of all Latino undergraduates in the United States. As AI ethics becomes a required or strongly recommended component of computer science, law, and social science curricula, faculty at HSIs face a specific challenge: their students deserve rigorous, original academic material in Spanish — not machine-translated summaries of English texts.

Humanoide en la Torre de Babel is not a translation. It is an original scholarly work written in Spanish, grounded in a Caribbean and Latin American intellectual perspective, that engages critically with the same international frameworks your students will encounter: the EU AI Act, the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. It also provides a rigorous critique of why laws like NYC Local Law 144 — which permit companies to select their own auditors — fail to achieve genuine independence and represent normative simulations rather than real oversight.

The author, Rafael Darío Amador Pérez, brings a background that is unusual in AI ethics literature: a career as a military officer combined with deep engagement in neuroscience, technology philosophy, and legal theory. That interdisciplinary lens produces frameworks — the Humanoide Framework, Neural Analysis, the concept of Computational Negligence Syndrome — that students find more intuitive and more challenging than standard introductory AI ethics texts.