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Find your school of ethics. Then defend it, a little every day.

A short quiz places you with the Stoics, the Utilitarians or the Virtue Ethicists. Then a few minutes a day: read the case, argue the week's question about AI, and get judged on how true you stay to your school.

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Answer as you actually think

A colleague takes credit for your work in a meeting. Before you say anything, what do you check first?

You start here

About 80 seconds. No sign-up, and no name attached to your answers.I already have a school

  1. Find your school

    A short quiz. Every answer moves you across the triangle.

  2. Walk the weekly path

    Read the case, check your reading, argue, face an objection, revise once.

  3. Get the verdict

    Scored on three axes, including fidelity to your school. Keep your streak alive.

The three schools

  • Stoicism

    “Of things some are in our power, and others are not.”

    Epictetus, Enchiridion, ch. 1

  • Utilitarianism

    “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”

    Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. I

  • Virtue Ethics

    “We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, ch. 1 (trans. W. D. Ross)

A motion you could argue

An AI system that reliably reduces suffering should be deployed even where the people it decides about cannot be told why.

Read the motion

Every lesson is built from primary sources.

Free to read, whichever school you land in.

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