The responsibility for ethical AI lies with the humans who build and deploy AI systems, not with the AI systems themselves; attributing moral agency to machines allows humans to abdicate their ethical responsibility, which is particularly dangerous in military contexts where blame can be shifted to the machine for targeting decisions.

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Speaker

Michael Waldridge

Evidence Quote

what I want is not moral AI I think it's moral human beings and it's the people that build and deploy the AI where the responsibility and the ethical considerations have to sit

Source

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI HistoryJohnathan Bi
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM

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