Responsible AI Foundation

Image Credit: Generated with Wix AI The social contract is a simple idea that hides a lot of complexity. Citizens give states power, resources and some degree of obedience. In return, they expect protection, basic services and a say in how rules are written and applied. For most of modern history that bargain has been mediated by human institutions. Civil servants, teachers, judges and frontline workers interpret law, exercise discretion and can be challenged when they get th

Image Credit: Generated with Gemini A growing number of philosophers think the central question in AI ethics is not “Is this system conscious?” but “Can this system suffer?” Consciousness is already hard to pin down in humans. A Cambridge philosopher recently argued in his paper that we may never develop a reliable test for machine consciousness because science still cannot explain why any physical process produces subjective experience at all ( Cambridge, 2025 ). If there is

Some universities responded to AI cheating by doing the logical thing and banning ChatGPT. They prohibited students from using generative AI for any coursework and treated the tool like contraband and the skill like cheating. While this solves a problem, it creates a much larger one. The ban stops academic cheating in the short term. A student cannot submit an essay written by ChatGPT if they cannot access ChatGPT. Yet 59% of students already use AI despite bans. The prohibit