From the Vault: Politics, Ethics, Technology
While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2025-26 season.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there has been a lot of interest on this blog this year relating to the issue of AI. However, it’s not just AI that as occupied our writers this year – here are a few highlights from this year’s posts relating to politics, technology, and ethics:
- We have been warned by the CEO of AI company Anthropic that up to 50% of entry-level jobs could be taken by AI in the coming years. While reporters have pointed out that this could be exaggeration to drive profits, it raises the question of where AI should fit into society. In her first guest post for Justice Everywhere, Hollie Meehan asks whether “virtuous AI” could actually save entry level jobs.
- How should we understand the harm of LLMs? In a fascinating guest post, Joe Slater argues that even when LLMs do not hallucinate, their output can be harmful.
- The proliferation of Generative AI is just one of the threats facing democracy. Our regular contributor Alexandru Volacu draws on Ancient Greece to argue for the creation of a new type of democratic job to incentivice democracy.
- How can we ensure that Big Tech and other companies take responsibility for the harm that they cause? Mihaela Popa-Wyatt and Ajinkya Deshmukh argue for the adoption of a “Polluter Pays” principle to hold companies accountable for online harms.
- What is the harm in having an AI companion? Apps that allow users to develop relationships with customizable AI chat bots are increasingly popular. As part of our ongoing partnership with the Journal of Applied Philosophy, we featured a post by Muriel Leuenberger which analyzed the effect of using AI companions.
Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2026-27 season!
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Justice Everywhere will return in full swing soon with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors, in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series. If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.
