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person

Reid Blackman

AI ethics consultant; 'Ethical Machines' author

Philosopher turned AI ethics consultant who built Virtue, a firm advising Fortune 500 companies. Argues practical ethics implementation is the bottleneck, not theoretical frameworks or extinction-risk debates.

current CEO, Virtue

Strategy positions

Governance firstendorses

Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Publishes on the operational ethics problems enterprises face deploying AI, accountability, discrimination, explainability.

The question is not whether AI should be ethical. It is who owns the ethical decisions inside the company.
bookEthical Machines· Harvard Business Review Press· 2022-07-26· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Reid Blackman's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abeba Birhane

    Abeba Birhane

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    Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher

  • Adam Tooze

    Adam Tooze

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    Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter

  • Adrian Weller

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    Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow

  • Adrienne LaFrance

    Adrienne LaFrance

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic

  • Adrienne Williams

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    Former Amazon warehouse worker; AI labour activist

  • Akash Wasil

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    Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-24.