AI Ethics
The moral philosophy of artificial intelligence — accountability for AI decisions, the trolley problems of autonomous systems, AI and human dignity, corporate responsibility, and the frameworks we're building to navigate technology that outpaces our ethical intuitions.
Reddit's API Wall Has Made Permission the Product
Developers rejected from Reddit's API now treat the permission layer as irrelevant — routing around it through public endpoints and platform-agnostic tooling.
- ·Reddit's API rejection process targets individual developers — not just enterprise actors — making small-scale personal projects the clearest victims of the access wall.
- ·Developers have responded not by advocating for access but by building around the permission layer through public JSON endpoints and platform-agnostic automation.
- ·The community now treats Reddit's data as an extraction target, and that posture is being passed to the next cohort of builders through public documentation and shared workflows.
Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclical Lands as the Ethics Conversation Fragments
Pope Leo XIV's call to 'disarm' AI arrives as the ethics conversation splinters into institutional posturing, grassroots fatigue, and unresolved corporate contradictions.
When AI Ethics Becomes a Credential, the Argument Disappears
The AI ethics conversation has professionalized itself into irrelevance — CE credits and leadership certificates have replaced the arguments that made it matter.
AI Bias Has Outlasted the Outrage Cycle
Documented racial bias in AI systems persists not because labs lack solutions but because exhaustion has replaced accountability as the default community response.
The AI Bias Conversation Has Stopped Asking and Started Demanding
The AI bias debate has moved past research into a phase where communities demand accountability, and the legal system is beginning to deliver it.