Applied ethics for emergent AI
Adam Hollowell writes and consults on the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence — bringing twenty years of applied ethics practice to bear on the emerging systems, frameworks, and decisions shaping AI right now.
Artificial intelligence is developing capacities so profound and powerful that we need an ethics to meet the moment. Yet the questions emerging AI raises about identity, conscience, and moral agency are not new — they are among the oldest questions we have. What's needed is deep engagement with the raw material of ethics: the traditions, stories, and practical wisdom earned from a life well-lived. Because the choices we make about AI today are not abstract — they are already affecting how people work, relate, make decisions, and understand themselves, and those effects will only deepen.