Humans have a peculiar tendency: we often enjoy taking the long way around a rule to make it feel acceptable. Someone might proudly say they never take bribes, yet if a person is “happy with their work” and offers a gift, they accept it without hesitation. It’s the same action, just wrapped in a nicer story.
Today, while searching for jobs, I was also exploring the ethics of artificial intelligence. And it struck me—AI is built by humans, shaped by our behaviours, our logic, and our loopholes. Naturally, it reflects our habits too.
Take a simple example: when a job application asks, “Do you have prior experience?”
A factual question. Straightforward.
But I wondered—what if I treat this factual question as a situational one?
So I asked the AI whether this approach would be acceptable.
It replied that it wouldn’t be the right thing to do, but then immediately suggested a workaround:
I could present my teaching experience as interview experience, and therefore frame it as recruitment experience.
Technically not wrong.
But it’s a perfect demonstration of how an unethical idea can be polished into something that sounds ethical.
That’s the point: no matter how modern we become, our old habit of bending the rules doesn’t disappear. And AI isn’t adding a new dimension to this behaviour—it’s simply reflecting our values back to us in a new form.
Ultimately, I don’t know why I can’t be optimistic about the “AI.”
Note: This post is originally translated by AI from the actual post:
Tag: Ehtics
Human intelligence has got a new form called “artificial intelligence.”