Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity: Ethics and Political Theory

Harvard HKS

Artificial Intelligence (AI) might be the most consequential technology humanity has ever created. Algorithms already decide who gets bail, credit, job interviews, or visas. Platforms exercise authority over democratic life at a scale no government has achieved. And looming in the background are questions — about general AI, about the moral status of artificial minds, about the survival of democratic self-governance — that no existing political or legal tradition was designed to address. The…