KevinMD January 23, 2026
Most of us don’t notice moral development happening while it is happening. Moral character forms quietly, through repetition, through what we get used to doing and through what we slowly stop doing without much forethought.
Artificial intelligence matters from a moral perspective long before it ever potentially becomes conscious or autonomous. Although AI may or may not confront us with dramatic ethical dilemmas, it does change our moral lives in a far subtler way in that it reshapes our habits. Habits, more than principles, are where moral development actually lives.
The Humean perspective
This way of thinking about morality is not new. It can be traced to David Hume, an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that human morality grows out...
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