
When Machines Decide: AI, Ethics, and the Question of Responsibility
Artificial Intelligence has quietly slipped from the labs into our daily lives. It’s no longer a futuristic dream; it’s steering cars…
Artificial Intelligence has quietly slipped from the labs into our daily lives. It’s no longer a futuristic dream; it’s steering cars…
Examining How AI’s Growth Strains Resources, Challenges Ethics, and Shapes Our Planet and Society
Why Prompts Carry So Much Power.
<div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="900" data-orig-width="1200"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s640x960/92c545eee1dc8364410920f2a94786908be3f33c.jpg" data-orig-height="900" data-orig-width="1200" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s75x75_c1/e7e7f4b81d648f70e81353df2a9248b5d7a87aae.jpg 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s100x200/a2571a6d61e97208d6cdc94e1a1be01d76920dd7.jpg 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s250x400/c7a7903d5712778e3a29d9a43fbd6af5d29db7e2.jpg 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s400x600/1f95ef02be052b21165f0b4d1698f52aeec3117b.jpg 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s500x750/9f8767a71122fb8ff78676955a71e06891e6d3dd.jpg 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s540x810/089805ab15638eee899bb210fd015526e4d202b1.jpg 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s640x960/92c545eee1dc8364410920f2a94786908be3f33c.jpg 640w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/8d1b04d76a351eeeb39efb6cda98e524/fc0a4e56b8a12a4d-c5/s1280x1920/5982ba3d80083bee00e27484f0e0206dc35f26e7.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px"/></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/james.greenberg.5?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZUCiHt2w7dz3Q7XjI4RbxQq2cu-qI-hvyok1KIAYvqYDpZ2GVMPL_OzSHIyX4ZiDnV9V7Tbiuopz6KEBmSst0GZ9rY5Wc_QeqSpwrDIcAiyvSRFRVB0i9NsSxRhNS-ZG5Kl4wVxQ-ebjrsP6YgOdI-yXDgecg3aFOwZU8a9twaLi5oF4XGUBGeKkmfRB94-IYY&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R" target="_blank"><b>James Greenberg</b></a></p><p>Every society reveals its values in what it chooses to protect and what it permits to be destroyed. In the United States, harm that doesn’t register on a corporate balance sheet is treated as if it doesn’t exist. Lead in school pipes, heatstroke in warehouses, poisoned rivers near refineries—these aren’t failures of oversight. They are the predictable consequences of a system organized around profit. The people harmed aren’t simply overlooked. They are abandoned by design.</p><p>Corporations are built to maximize return and minimize exposure. Limited liability shields executives from the consequences of their choices. Pollution becomes a cost pushed onto the public. Legal risk is contained through lobbying, settlements, and regulatory evasion. Fiduciary duty extends only to shareholders. The surrounding world—the ecosystem, the community, the laboring body—is left out of the accounting.</p><p>The corporate gaze is one-dimensional: profits and losses. The vast complexity of ecosystems, the interdependence of species, the health of communities cannot be reduced to a ledger line, though economists have tried. Bycatch pulled up in fishing nets is treated as waste and dumped overboard. A lumber company counts only the trees it sells, not the forest it destroys. Factories pollute the air and water unless stopped, because the costs fall elsewhere. What does not reduce profitability is collateral damage.</p><p>Government regulation exists to counter this blindness. Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency were created to defend society and nature from the narrow logics of markets. The Environmental Impact Assessments mandated under the National Environmental Policy Act were designed to slow extraction long enough to ask: What will this do to the land, the water, the air, the people? It was a civic pause—a reminder that not everything of value can be monetized [1].</p><p>That pause has been shrinking for decades. Reagan’s deregulatory push in the 1980s redefined public protection as a drag on growth. George W. Bush expanded exemptions for energy projects. Both Republican and Democratic administrations chipped away at oversight in the name of efficiency. Trump simply took the trend to its endpoint, recasting regulation itself as illegitimate [2].</p><p>The logic of corporate power has not only influenced government; it has overtaken it. Lee Iacocca once said, “what’s good for General Motors is good for America” [3]. That view cast corporate prosperity as national interest. State capture takes it further: government no longer pretends to balance public welfare against private profit. It exists to serve the interests of corporate America. In doing so, it adopts the corporate gaze as its own—a gaze that divides the world into what is profitable and what is expendable. Those who generate returns are protected; those who do not are written off as collateral damage. In effect, government decides who matters and who can be abandoned.</p><p>The attack has gone beyond regulation to knowledge itself. Scientific advisory boards have been sidelined, data collection curtailed, and experts pushed out. Oversight depends on evidence, and disabling the capacity to know is as consequential as disabling the capacity to act. The epistemic commons—the shared base of facts needed for accountability—was deliberately undermined [4].</p><p>This was part of a broader ideological project. Republicans have long preached that markets allocate better than governments, that public services should be privatized, and that shrinking the state frees taxpayers. Trump, guided by Project 2025, brought those ideas to fruition. What emerged was not a smaller government but a reconfigured one: powerful in serving capital, absent when it comes to public welfare [5].</p><p>The logic of abandonment is not new. In the 1980s, Reagan dismantled the federal mental health system by repealing the Mental Health Systems Act and shifting responsibility to the states without funding. Thousands were released from psychiatric hospitals with nowhere to go, fueling a surge of homelessness that persists [6]. The state didn’t fail to care. It chose not to. The mentally ill were collateral in a war against public spending.</p><p>The same logic defines environmental injustice. Communities near refineries, highways, and industrial corridors—often Black, Latino, or Indigenous—have long been treated as sacrifice zones. These neighborhoods were shaped by segregation, redlining, and discriminatory zoning. Their proximity to pollution was no accident. When the EPA shutters its environmental justice offices, it abandons those who most need protection [7].</p><p>Anthropologically, this is more than policy drift. It is a redefinition of civic identity. When institutions stop protecting, they declare who counts and who doesn’t. Regulatory erosion is not technical. It is moral. It tells entire communities: your air, your water, your health are negotiable.</p><p>The consequences are visible. Oil spills devastate marine life. Warehouses overheat. Refineries leak. And the government looks away. Efficiency becomes the euphemism for abandonment. What is dismissed as collateral damage is the slow dismantling of civic protection.</p><p>But abandonment is not destiny. Civic agency remains. The fight for regulatory integrity is a fight for knowledge—for the right to see what is being done, and to whom. It is a fight for the commons, for species not tallied in ledgers, for communities excluded from profit margins. Above all, it is a fight to restore the architecture of accountability.</p><p>Endnotes</p><p>[1] National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Pub.L. 91–190.</p><p>[2] Council on Environmental Quality, “Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA,” 2020.</p><p>[3] Lee Iacocca, testimony before the U.S. Congress, 1953.</p><p>[4] Union of Concerned Scientists, The EPA Under Siege, 2019.</p><p>[5] Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project, Heritage Foundation, 2023.</p><p>[6] Ronald Reagan, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981; Mental Health Systems Act repeal.</p><p>[7] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Environmental Justice Program History,” archived materials, 2020.</p>
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Bc my partner pays for the full program/app (they work with LLMs and AI) and it’s REALLY good imho. It gives you every source it uses and explores all angles of a conversation. What do yall think???</p>
OpenAI تكشف كيف يستخدم الناس ChatGPTوأجرى فريق البحث الاقتصادي في OpenAI هذه الدراسة، الأولى من نوعها، بالتعاون مع الخبير الاقتصادي من جامعة هارفارد، ديفيد ديمينغ، واعتمدت على تحليل نحو 1.5 مليون محادثة.وأظهرت الدراسة أن غالبية الاستخدام يتركز على إنجاز المهام اليومية، سواء على الصعيد الشخصي أو المهني، بينما يشكل الاستخدام المهني حوالي 30% فقط من المحادثات.وأشارت النتائج إلى أن ثلاثة أرباع المحادثات تتعلق بالتوجيه العملي والبحث…لأول مرة.. OpenAI تكشف كيف يستخدم الناس ChatGPT
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