AI Developers Bet on Different Moral Philosophies: Anthropic on Virtue Ethics, OpenAI on Deontology
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-08-23
Geoffrey Irving observes that different AI developers are implicitly betting on different systems of moral philosophy as their central approach to character training. Anthropic leans towards virtue ethics, while OpenAI tends towards deontology.
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