Opinion | This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies

A couple weeks ago @nytimes.com OpEd asked me, “What would it take for an AI company to be good?” I emailed, “That's the wrong question.“ They replied, “Cool, keep going.” (This exchange has been edited for length and clarity.) Anyway, that is how they get you. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

Paul Ford: This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies. (Tl;dr: regulation.) “The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constraints on disruption and scale.” [nytimes.com]

#giftarticle Is There Such a Thing as a Good A.I. Company? by Paul Ford “Ethics don’t scale up.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

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Can A.I. companies prioritize ethics over innovation? Explore the balance between tech advancement and moral responsibility. #AIethics https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/opinion/ai-company-good-altruism.html

On the relationship between ethics and the AI business: a cogent and thoughtful perspective from the always-great Paul Ford. My gift link, to share on your own channels: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

“Is it any wonder that the Japanese word “kaiju,” or strange beast, has “AI” smack in the middle?” — @ftrain.bsky.social

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"The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constraints on disruption and scale." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o... These are the same qualities we perceive in Godzilla, but distributed. Is it any wonder that the Japanese word “kaiju,” or strange beast, has “AI” smack in the middle?

“Nearly a billion people are using ChatGPT. What appears to be a multitrillion-dollar economic bomb .. unleashed into the world .. voices believe A.I. will either demolish the labor market .. or reveal itself soon as a huge fraud and a bubble.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o... @nytimes.com

Paul Ford: Ethics don't scale when big money incentives emerge, which is why we need regs.

"At that scale, people start to blur together, and human users can become aggregate pools of statistics and growth vectors that go up and down — a mulch into which you plant your products." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

“there are so many new things to regulate: Deepfakes, A.I. liability, copyright rules, model bias concerns and ecological costs top the list. And we will also need to protect the digital commons and incentivize people to write and do things online. So there will need to be a very long A.I. bill”