The Ethical Machine: How AI is Reshaping Society
About this ebook
What if the smartest thing in the room doesn’t know right from wrong—but still runs your mortgage, résumé, and dating profile?
In The Ethical Machine, philosopher and educator Vincent Froom delivers a timely, gripping, and often darkly funny exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping not just technology—but power, politics, identity, and moral life.
From biased algorithms and killer robots to emotional chatbots and data colonialism, this book maps the real-world consequences of AI systems that don’t just reflect society—they amplify its flaws. With clarity, nuance, and wit, Froom dissects the myths of neutrality, the dangers of convenience, and the seductive appeal of “optimization without empathy.”
Drawing on philosophy, global policy, lived experience, and interviews with frontline engineers and activists, The Ethical Machine asks:
Can we program morality?
Who gets to define intelligence?
And what kind of future are we coding into being?
This is not a book about superintelligence. It’s about super systems without supervision—and the urgent need to put humans back in the loop.
Whether you’re a technologist, policymaker, student, or curious citizen, The Ethical Machine invites you to slow down, look harder, and decide what kind of future we still have time to choose.
About the author
About the Author
Vincent Froom is a writer, philosopher, and interdisciplinary educator whose work explores the uneasy spaces between technology, ethics, and society. With a background in theology, cognitive science, and cultural criticism, he writes for readers who want their intelligence augmented—but not artificially.
Vincent’s approach blends academic depth with narrative clarity and dry wit. His research often asks uncomfortable questions: What happens when machines learn from our flaws? Can automation coexist with dignity? Are we building systems that serve people—or just simulate understanding?
He has published works on moral philosophy, posthuman ethics, spiritual life in a digital age, and the politics of memory in machine learning systems. His writing has appeared in academic journals, cultural magazines, and podcasts that dare to ask whether toasters have an inner life.
When not lecturing, debating, or dodging existential crises triggered by chatbot conversations, Vincent can be found in Vancouver, Canada—reading speculative fiction, building ethical technology curricula, or parenting a small human who is already smarter than GPT.
The Ethical Machine is his latest contribution to the global conversation on how we live—wisely, justly, and together—in a world increasingly shaped by systems that can think but not feel.
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