A Yale ethicist who has studied AI for 25 years says the real danger isn’t superintelligence. It’s the absence of moral intelligence.

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Wendell Wallach recently. He’s been working in AI ethics since before ChatGPT, before the hype, before most people in tech were paying attention. He wrote Moral Machines, worked alongside Stuart Russell, Yann LeCun and Daniel Kahneman. He’s not a commentator, he’s someone who has sat with these questions for decades. What struck me most in our conversation was his argument about AGI. Not that it’s impossible or inevitable, but that it’s the wrong goal ent