The Moral Math of AI: It's Complicated

at home in my head · Aug 17, 2026 · 1h 24m

The Moral Math of AI - It’s ComplicatedA Silicon-Carbon Collaboration.What does it mean to use a technology that exists inside harmful systems?AI has real costs. Environmental impact. Corporate concentration. Labor concerns. Military applications. Unequal burdens on the Global South. Those harms belong in any serious ethical discussion.But so do the benefits.How should we think about complicity when nearly everything we use connects us to systems that cause harm?Beginning with the surprising human and environmental cost of passenger vehicles, we examine what happens when moral accounting…