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Carnegie Council’s Joel Rosenthal frames a "post‑liberal" world and warns AI raises urgent questions of authority and responsibility
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Joel Rosenthal told a Hinckley Institute audience that norms underpinning the liberal world order are under strain and used artificial intelligence as a case study to probe who should hold authority and responsibility for AI systems, citing corporate limits and contested government demands.
Joel Rosenthal, president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, told a Hinckley Institute Forum audience that the international rules and moral commitments that defined the liberal world are fraying and that artificial intelligence illustrates the ethical and institutional challenges that follow.
Rosenthal argued that the liberal order—grounded in international cooperation, defense of democratic institutions, fidelity to truth and a humanitarian imperative—rested on both substantive values and procedural restraints. "Ethics is plural, not singular," he said, urging a pluralistic approach that manages differences rather than demanding purity of principle.
Rosenthal said contemporary politics shows a "rupture" from those norms, naming recent public…
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