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Anticipatory AI Ethics

Recent experience has starkly demonstrated that merely reacting to technological change—whether from AI or from digital innovation more broadly—is insufficient. The world urgently need to proactively forestall rather than just respond to technological impacts.

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By Seth Lazar
Published on May 1, 2025
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Seth Lazar
Seth Lazar

Nonresident Scholar, Technology and International Affairs Program

Seth Lazar is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Technology and International Affairs Program.

Seth Lazar
Nonresident Scholar, Technology and International Affairs Program
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