The Ethics of Predictive Analytics in Insurance

Every AI deployment makes implicit ethical choices. The training data encodes values. The objective function prioritizes outcomes. The deployment context determines who is affected. Pretending these choices are purely technical is itself an ethical position, and not a...

Why AI Ethics Cannot Be Solved by Engineers Alone

The gap between ethical intention and ethical outcome is bridged by process, not aspiration. Organizations that have ethical AI principles but no ethical AI processes have principles in name only. The fundamental challenge of AI ethics is not knowing what is right. It...

AI and the Commons: Public Resources for Public Good

AI ethics is not a constraint on innovation. It is a quality standard for innovation. An AI system that produces biased outcomes, violates privacy, or makes unexplainable decisions is not a good system that happens to be unethical. It is a bad system. Every AI...

The Problem with AI Safety Theater

The fundamental challenge of AI ethics is not knowing what is right. It is building organizations that consistently do what is right when doing so is inconvenient, expensive, or slow. Ethics is easy in the abstract. It is difficult in the quarterly planning meeting....