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Ethical Positions
Confronting the moral dimensions of AI—bias, surveillance, labor, and the politics of machine intelligence.
This pillar confronts the moral dimensions of artificial intelligence head-on. As AI systems increasingly shape decisions about employment, justice, healthcare, and creativity, we must grapple with their embedded biases and power structures.
Scholars like Kate Crawford, Ruha Benjamin, and Shannon Vallor illuminate the ways AI can perpetuate—or challenge—existing inequalities. Their work asks us to consider: Whose values are encoded in these systems? Who benefits and who is harmed? And how do we build AI that serves human flourishing rather than extraction?