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AI brings in philosophers and theologians for moral guidance, but may be asking them the wrong things

7/25/2026

Applied ethics, the discipline that translates philosophical principle into practical decisions, has become a consulting category inside the AI industry.

Companies have begun recruiting theologians and philosophers as advisers on questions of right and wrong. A mounting critique holds that the questions posed to those advisers are misconceived from the start.

Why the AI industry is calling on moral experts The appeal is easy to see.

Theology and philosophy are disciplines that have spent centuries working through questions about moral responsibility and what humans owe one another.