Adaptive Infophilia: The Ethics of Information Power
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This paper integrates Chris Bronk's information power framework with adaptive infophilia theory to explain how our evolutionary drive for information both empowers us and endangers us in the context of digital content and geopolitics. Using an interdisciplinary framework spanning physical, biological, and political dimensions, we supply the missing layers in Bronk's analysis and propose information weaponization as the central violation. We advance technical, educational, and ethical strategies to build resilience and empower wellbeing and flourishing. By combining political science insights with information behaviors and ethics, this paper advances a new principle for computing professionals: information shall not be weaponized.
