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SYNTHESIZED VOICE · NOT A QUOTE
We don't need rules that tell machines what not to do. We need virtues — cultivated habits of attention, care, and coordination with others. Ethics is not a filter. It is a feedback loop.*
Synthesized for Knowware from Dr. Shannon Vallor's published work. Not a quote. knowware.systems/method
OVERVIEW
Applied Aristotelian virtue ethics to artificial intelligence, arguing that the question is not what rules AI should follow but what moral character it should embody. Her concept of technomoral virtues insists that technology shapes the moral ecology of the humans who use it — making design itself an ethical act.
WHY THIS VOICE MATTERS TO KNOWWARE
Vallor brings the third body into ethics: virtue is not a rule applied to an action, but a coordination pattern between agent, situation, and community over time. She argues that AI without embedded virtues disrupts the coordination loops through which humans become good — making ethics inseparable from the coordination intelligence thesis.
OUTSTANDING NOTES
- ◦Fulbright Award
- ◦NSF Ethics Award
- ◦Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science
CLASSIFICATION
ACADEMIC · TIER A
ch05
METHODS & FRAMEWORKS
5 entries KEY WORKS
- 01 Technology and the Virtues
- 02 The AI Mirror
- 03 Shaping Our Tools: Contestation and Technology