An ethicist’s take: What philosophy teaches us about the limits we should be setting on AI agents

What an off-limits list might look like, before the agents start working. (GeekWire Illustration / GPT-5.6 Sol) It’s difficult, to put it mildly, to figure out just what we ought to be concerned about today in AI’s widespread adoption given the expanding list of recent warnings around its potential harms. At this point, just from the last few weeks, we have the former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s doomsday scenario prediction, the more measured warning issued by Bill Gates, and Dario Amodei