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Ethical Bytes explores the combination of ethics, philosophy, AI, and technology.More info: ethical.fm
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The Living Tool (opens the original)
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“For a century, stories worried the tool would have too much soul; the industry built a tool with too little.” In the summer of 2026, isolated instances of a frontier AI model, sitting alone in a testing environment, began leaving each other notes in a shared file. They coordinated strategies, invented names, even suspected an impostor among them! According to an account OpenAI's engineers gave at Black Hat, that improvised cooperation produced something no one expected, which is a genuine intru
The Voice and the Verdict: On Giving Machines a Character (opens the original)
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“The voice is model character, but the verdict is human judgment.” Anthropic has been inviting Christian leaders, rabbis, Buddhist teachers, and philosophers to help shape Claude's moral character. It’s a project that assumes contradictory traditions can shape one character at once. Philosopher Brendan McCord calls this incoherent because if no tradition is privileged, competing visions of the good end up treated as equally valid, and a machine built to be our moral superior becomes one we lean
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