AI Ethics Framework Library

The comprehensive resource for choosing and applying ethical frameworks to AI systems.

📚 10 Frameworks • 🔬 Research-Backed • 🧰 Actionable
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GOVERNANCE

IntentBound

The control layer for autonomous AI. Explicit constraints through declared intent, authorization boundaries, drift detection, and verification gates.

📅 2026 🎓 Technical ⚡ Runtime
Autonomous AI Governance
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PHILOSOPHICAL

Utilitarian AI Ethics

Maximize overall wellbeing and minimize harm. AI decisions evaluated by their consequences for the greatest number of people.

📅 Classical 🎓 Philosophical
Outcomes Optimization
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PHILOSOPHICAL

Deontological AI Ethics

Rules and duties guide AI behavior regardless of outcomes. Certain actions are inherently right or wrong.

📅 Classical 🎓 Philosophical
Rules Duties
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PHILOSOPHICAL

Virtue Ethics for AI

Focus on cultivating good character in AI systems. What traits should AI embody? Honesty, fairness, wisdom, courage.

📅 Classical 🎓 Philosophical
Character Training
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PHILOSOPHICAL

Care Ethics in AI

Relationships, context, and particular needs matter. AI should attend to vulnerability and respond to specific circumstances.

📅 Contemporary 🎓 Philosophical
Context Relationships
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GOVERNANCE

Rights-Based Frameworks

Fundamental rights must be protected: privacy, autonomy, non-discrimination, dignity. AI cannot violate these regardless of benefits.

📅 Modern 🎓 Legal/Policy
Privacy Autonomy
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PHILOSOPHICAL

Capabilities Approach

AI should enhance human capabilities and freedoms, not diminish them. Focus on what people are able to do and be.

📅 Contemporary 🎓 Philosophical
Flourishing Freedom
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DEVELOPMENT

Environmental AI Ethics

Account for AI's environmental impact: energy consumption, carbon footprint, resource use, e-waste.

📅 Emerging 🎓 Technical
Climate Sustainability
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PHILOSOPHICAL

Indigenous AI Ethics

Relationality, sovereignty, and collective rights. Data as sacred. Community consent and benefit.

📅 Emerging 🎓 Cultural
Sovereignty Community
DEVELOPMENT

Consequentialist Approaches

Actions judged solely by outcomes. Flexible, pragmatic, optimization-focused. Foundation for RL reward functions.

📅 Classical 🎓 Technical
Results Optimization

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