Is AI itself unethical or just how companies use it?
AI is a tool, not a moral agent — it optimizes whatever objective it's given. Genuine ethical failures exist, like unauthorized scraping of copyrighted work and hallucinated outputs sold as fact, but those are choices made by the companies and engineers deploying the systems, not properties of the mathematics itself.
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