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# [Virtue Ethics and Machine Morality: Why Your AI Can't Be Good — Only Obedient](https://daimones.hashnode.dev/virtue-ethics-and-machine-morality-why-your-ai-can-t-be-good-only-obedient?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Current AI doesn't reason about ethics — it performs compliance. Aristotle's virtue ethics reveals why RLHF creates sycophants, not moral agents.

Aug 1 · 11 min read · daimones.hashnode.dev  
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