Artificial Intelligence, Human Dignity, and Business Development: A Governance Framework for AI Use in Supply Chain – Logistics Informed by Antiqua et Nova

Abstract

The artificial intelligence (AI) approach is rapidly influencing business development in supply chain - logistics by enhancing coordination, speed, and quality of decisions. Nevertheless, with the implementation of AI in logistics, governance issues are increasingly challenging to overlook, particularly those related to accountability, transparency, and safeguarding human dignity in the algorithmically mediated decisions. This paper adopts a qualitative, normative design and considers AI adoption in supply chain - logistics as an issue of governance, but not a technical or operational one. Based on the Antiqua et Nova and key principles of Catholic Social Teaching, the analysis addresses the gaps in governance that are apparent in logistics practices of AI and ASEAN level policy guidance, focusing on human control, moral responsibility, and algorithmic management. It constructs a normative framework of governance with the help of an illustrative case analysis and a governance gap assessment as a means to reposition human moral agency to the center of AI-enabled logistics operations. The framework highlights the importance of human responsibility, regulated openness, and reasonable human control as viable principles of ethically responsible adoption of AI and shows how dignity-based ethical thinking can be used to inform governance and legitimate sustainable business growth in supply chain - logistics.