Many people — including me — are quite uncomfortable with generative AI. Most of this discomfort can be traced to the various ethical challenges that AI raises. But an understanding of the different schools of ethics can help us both to better address those challenges and what to do about them.

Three different ethical approaches

The first thing to say about the ethics of AI is that there is no single ‘ethics’. When we engage with ethical issues there are typically at least three different systems that might be in play:

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