Philosopher Carissa Véliz: AI Presents Predictions as Facts, With Deep Ethical Implications
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-10-28
In an El País interview, philosopher Carissa Véliz — author of Profecía, out this month — argues that AI systems present predictions as if they were facts, a framing with profound ethical implications that risks misleading the public into treating probabilistic outputs as certain truths.
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