AI ‘Ethics’ Boards: Corporate Gaslighting 101

The Puppet Show

Meet your average AI ethics board:

• 50% venture capitalists (who profit from surveillance).
• 30% ex-politicians (who still use Internet Explorer).
• 20% academics (paid by the same companies they ‘oversee’).

Debian’s Actual Ethics

Contrast this with Debian’s Social Contract:

1. Software must be 100% libre.
2. Users come first.
3. No backdoors, no bullshit.

Exercise:

cat /usr/share/doc/debian/social-contract.txt | grep -i "ethics"

(Spoiler: It’s shorter than Microsoft’s EULA.)

Mic Drop:

“Ethics shouldn’t require a PR team.”