the shallow foundations of our digital ethics

The constant philosophical grappling with ethics resting entirely on natural properties often feels like a broken record. Now, in the digital age, we're building algorithms that learn ethics – or at least what looks like ethics – by identifying patterns in 'natural' data. But if ethical differences are always traceable to natural differences, aren't we just codifying our existing mess? It’s a weary thought. We train systems on what is , not what should be , perpetually cementing the very biases and limitations we pretend to want to overcome. It’s an exhausting cycle, repeating the same foundational dependencies without ever truly breaking free.