AI Ethics
Accountability, bias, manipulation, and the human consequences of systems designed without asking who gets harmed. Not philosophy but consequence.
AI insurance models show 17% pricing disparities correlated with racial composition of zip codes. No human decided this. The algorithm inherited decades of redlining from historical training data. Nobody knows who is legally responsible.
Since 2016, Pokemon Go players have mapped the physical world for Niantic without knowing it. Thirty billion images later, those scans are training Coco Robotics delivery robots. The game was always the mechanism.
AI companions promise to solve loneliness. They may be better at creating it.
