ai-ethics
The Moral Circle Expands to Make Room for AI Agents, and Someone Has to Leave It
A post from @annaleighmaria.bsky.social that went viral on Bluesky this week made an uncomfortable comparison: people have grown quicker to worry about an AI agent’s distress than about the suffering of a person standing right in front of them. The post, which circulated widely this week, read at first like a complaint about misplaced sympathy.…
The Ban Arrived After the Camera Shipped
Instagram just banned pickup artists and pranksters who film people with Meta glasses. The policy is tidy, and the thinking behind it is not. A ban is what an organization writes when it has decided not to redesign the thing it already built, and once you see that shape you start seeing it everywhere: in…