Tim DaviesCEO Projekt Rising - The expert AI partner for SMEs

The Ethics of AI - Balancing Innovation and Morality

7 Mar 2025

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A short monologue reflecting on ethics and morality in AI companies, questioning whether companies and their ethics teams truly understand ethical principles. The speaker critiques corporate behavior using Google as an example—recalling Google’s former mantra (‘do no evil’) and noting its acquisition of Boston Dynamics—to highlight perceived contradictions between stated ethics and actions.

The ethics and morality one is a very interesting one. You do sort of question what their ethics, morals are and how many of them really understand what ethics are and what morals are and how you can interpret or in terms of the companies, the companies and what their attitudes are. You know, a lot of these companies had nice big ethic departments when they started. They haven't got many more. What was Google's mantra? Wasn't it do no evil? And then they bought Boston Dynamics. Yes.