Redefining “Survival of the Fittest”: The Urgent Need for Ethical AI Governance in the Age of Acceleration

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Author(s) / editor(s):
Hudson Mathew

Year: 2026

Keywords: AI governance & ethics; labour displacement & devaluation; environmental cost of AI
Language(s): English

Abstract:
Brief critique of the prevailing AI “race” that frames fitness as speed, scale, and automation—arguing this socio-technical trajectory causes mass layoffs, devalues labour, and inflicts severe environmental costs from resource‑intensive data infrastructures. The piece contends this path is a political/economic choice, not inevitability, and calls for international ethical governance: algorithmic transparency, penalties for reckless automation, and alignment of AI development with sustainability and human welfare.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-025-00243-1

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