Sigh, AI Ethics
March 31, 2026
I think we’re being targeted on all sides with everything that involves AI. Whether it’s the AI in your morning coffee pot, in Notepad on your PC, datacenters destroying the environment, AI taking jobs, or is ubiquitous. We should be concerned with the ethics of AI, otherwise we’ll become a greedy, resource sucking species. Wait! That has already happened). However, exploring ethics does make us think and when we think we sometimes get good ideas, like inventing AI!
AI Tech Park runs down the latest batch of AI ethics in the article, “The Ethical Implications of AI Agents in Business and Daily Life.” The article expounds on the usual virtues and negative implications of AI. Surprisingly, the write up asks a good question:
“As we hand the steering wheel to a driver without a heartbeat, the ethical implications of AI agent autonomy become our most pressing challenge. While this leap in tech is like trading a bicycle for a jet engine, it leaves us with a heavy question, when an AI makes a choice that changes a life, who is left holding the bill?”
Mixed metaphor aside, the answer is, “Duh!”
The bigger answers generate more questions such as:
What parts of humanity will pay the bill?
What are the costs to the human legacy?
Is AI destroying humanity at the cost of advancement?
Big AI tech or BAIT companies say, “We will pay the bill.” Yes, the check is in the mail and the boy scouts used to promise good behavior when the scout master left the pack alone in a hotel room with liquor in the mini fridge.
Nevertheless, the questions have to be asked and answered.
The write up caught my attention. I am a realist and pessimist. Debates about ethics and AI do the merrie go round thing. BAIT outfits don’t want to confront shortcoming others see in their actions. Regulators are asleep at the switch. Say, “Hello” to invasive AI. Ethics are unlikely to be a worry.
Whitney Grace, March 31, 2026
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