BEARING THE MORAL WEIGHT: WHAT’S LOST WHEN AI DECIDES

Book 2017

The People's Verdict

We live in a time when trust in government and politicians is in short supply. People claim to be tired of ‘experts’ and the divide between facts and opinion has been blurred. The art of offering simple solutions to complex problems is tipping the scale away from nuanced, multifaceted answers founded on compromise. Wi...

Claudia Chwalisz · 0 citations

Jul 2026

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN VALUES IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF NATION BUILDING

It is suggested that ethical reflection on AI in Africa must remain oriented toward the fragile work of nation building, and responsible technological adoption depends less on perfecting accountability structures than on sustained moral attention to how technologies quietly reorganize relationships, shift public values...

Nwamu Chukwudi Charles · COOU Journal of Arts and Hum... · 0 citations

Open access Jul 2026

Can a Positive Social Discount Rate Be Fair to the Future? On the Primacy of Practical Reason

In the paper I argue that social discounting of the future fails, in more general terms, because by focusing on existence or time distance, neglects the fact that future generations are participants in the same chain of human succession. Making use of Gosseries’ discussion in the book What is Intergenerational Justice?...

Kostas Koukouzelis · Ethics, Politics & Socie... · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Stubborn cases: a precautionist account of negligence

Negligence poses a puzzle for theories of moral responsibility: how can agents be responsible for conduct whose morally relevant features were not before their minds at the moment of action? When a devoted father forgets his child in a hot car, blame seems warranted; yet the connection between agent and outcome that or...

P. Schwind · Synthese · 0 citations

Book Aug 2026

Equal Subjection

Politicians like to claim that they are “in it together” or “in the same boat” with their subjects. In fact, they are not. Should they be? To what extent? This book offers the first systematic treatment of these questions. It contends that, under the status quo, rulers do not have enough skin in the game; they do not...

Claudio López‐Guerra · 0 citations

Jul 2026

The structural corruption of human-in-the-loop: how AI competence undermines its own safety architecture

The Bloom-Delegation Ladder is introduced as a framework for mapping which cognitive capacities have been delegated to AI systems and which remain as the basis for human oversight, and demonstrates that HITL, absent structural intervention, tends to transition from a guarantee of safety to an illusion of safety.

Kenji Yamada · AI and Ethics · 1 citation