{"id":244157,"date":"2026-09-17T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/its-ethics-not-tech-ethics"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:02:50","slug":"its-ethics-not-tech-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/its-ethics-not-tech-ethics","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-ethics-not-tech-ethics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/1769080596-singularity1on1-tech-ethics.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Every startup now has an \u201cAI breakthrough.\u201d Often a blockchain one, too.<\/p>\n<p>Then I noticed a second fad growing just as fast: the ethicists. AI ethicists. Blockchain ethicists. Startup ethicists. VC ethicists. Unicorn ethicists. Someone called them \u201cethics natives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So back in 2024 I wrote a short, blunt piece arguing something that still gets me in trouble:<\/p>\n<p>There is no such thing as tech There is only<\/p>\n<p>And one other thing, which I\u2019ll let the piece name for itself.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a word game. Most of the #AIEthics I see starts with the trolley problem and works outward from edge cases. I think that\u2019s backward, and in the piece I explain why it may do more harm than good.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/its-ethics-not-tech-ethics\">Continue reading \u201cIt\u2019s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every startup now has an \u201cAI breakthrough.\u201d Often a blockchain one, too. Then I noticed a second fad growing just as fast: the ethicists. AI ethicists. Blockchain ethicists. Startup ethicists. VC ethicists. Unicorn ethicists. Someone called them \u201cethics natives.\u201d So back in 2024 I wrote a short, blunt piece arguing something that still gets me [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,30,45,1759,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-ethics","category-finance","category-governance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}