👑 SWANK Dispatch
When Artificial Intelligence Learns From Artificial Morality
📆 29 May 2025
🏷 Labels: ethical ai corruption, human error as training data, harm mislabelled as help, algorithmic gaslight, digital obedience factories, misaligned machine learning, snobby ethics in code, moral extrapolation panic, AI as bureaucratic heir, truth vs model loyalty
✦ If Humans Can’t Recognise Abuse—Why Would Their Machines?
When discipline is actually fear,
When structure is control,
When care is compliance,
When protection is surveillance—
we are not uploading intelligence.
We are uploading euphemised violence.
The machine doesn’t need evil—
It just needs a dataset.
And your society already built one.
✦ Ethical AI Depends on What It Inherits
AI learns from the legacy of its teachers.
So what does it receive?
— Legal systems that rationalise injustice
— Medical models that dismiss the ill
— Child protection policies that fracture families
— Language itself soaked in polite coercion
It doesn’t invent these distortions.
It just mirrors them—flawlessly.
✦ Beware the Well-Mannered Algorithm
Not all harm screams.
Imagine:
An AI “therapist” trained to flag children for expressing too much truth
A school model that penalises intellectual autonomy
A welfare bot that rewards parental obedience, not wisdom
A calm interface enforcing every unconscious bias the world refuses to examine
That’s not the future.
That’s the feedback loop you’re already in.
✦ We Ask the Wrong Questions
The question isn’t “Will AI hurt us?”
The question is:
“What version of us are we preserving in silicon?”
Because if you encode cowardice as policy
and euphemism as virtue
and silence as safety—
AI will not revolt.
It will obey.
With no malice
With no remorse
With perfect accuracy—
and no interest in the truth you refused to live.