AI Safety Requires Pluralism, Not a Single Moral Operating System
A classic computer game series may hold one of the most important lessons for the world’s newest, most controversial technologies: a reminder that true ethical intelligence mandates the coexistence of competing virtues.
Long before artificial intelligence became a central question of policy, much less a subject of moral panic, the Ultima series—created by programmer and designer Richard Garriott and released between 1981 and 1999—was already exploring one of ethics’ oldest problems: what happens when virtues collide?
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