Island on Fire | AI and the Limits of Human Judgment

The boys in Lord of the Flies were rescued by the fire they set to hunt another boy. A good outcome did not make it a good decision. Starting with that irony and a recent experiment with AI agents in simulated societies, Joel K. Douglas asks who should be the adult supervision when we put AI to work. Truthfulness, autonomous weapons, self-defense, and AI-generated images reveal how difficult it is to write rules—and how much still depends on human judgment. Read the essay: https://joelkdoug...