Find your school of ethics. Then defend it, a little every day.
A short quiz places you in one of six schools of ethics. Then a few minutes a day: read the case, argue the week's question about AI, and get judged on how true you stay to your school.
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Who you are and what you owe
How it turns out
← Each person on their ownPeople through each other →
A few minutes. No sign-up, and no name attached to your answers.I already have a school
Find your school
A short quiz. Every answer moves you across the map.
Walk the weekly path
Read the case, check your reading, argue, face an objection, revise once.
Get the verdict
Scored on three axes, including fidelity to your school. A score of 40 out of 100 or more counts that day towards your streak.
The six schools
Stoicism
“Of things some are in our power, and others are not.”
Epictetus, Enchiridion, ch. 1
Utilitarianism
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”
Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. I
Virtue Ethics
“We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, ch. 1 (trans. W. D. Ross)
Confucianism
“When the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.”
The Analects, 12.11 (trans. James Legge, 1893, p. 165)
Ubuntu
“A person is a person through other persons.”
Nguni maxim, English as given in Thaddeus Metz, Toward an African Moral Theory, 2007, p. 322
Buddhist Ethics
“Treating others like oneself, neither kill nor incite to kill.”
Dhammapada, verses 129 to 130 (trans. Bhikkhu Sujato)
A motion you could argue
An AI system that reliably reduces suffering should be deployed even where the people it decides about cannot be told why.
Every lesson is built from primary sources.
Free to read, whichever school you land in.