05/09/2026
AI Has No Conscience — and It Shouldn’t
I recently received a video from a good business partner of mine, who owns a pharmacy, and decided to share my professional opinion on the subject.
The video discusses conscience—or, more precisely, the supposed absence of conscience in artificial intelligence. Once again, a fundamentally human issue is being linked to AI. The message is that AI has no conscience, cannot teach children morality, and may therefore become dangerous to people and society.
The video even uses dark, AI-generated images of a frightening spirit taking control of a child.
But this is exactly the point: AI did not decide to frighten anyone. A human being instructed it to create those manipulative images—and then used them as evidence that AI itself is dangerous.
When will respected and well-known people with large audiences stop producing scary stories about artificial intelligence and start discussing the real issue?
If you want to speak publicly about the dangers of AI, then explain who is using it, what objectives they give it, who controls the algorithms, and who benefits from the result.
Talk about social policy, television, propaganda, manipulation, and the systems that have been dividing people for decades. Talk about the lack of attention, knowledge, and critical thinking. Talk about people using powerful tools without understanding what they are doing.
Did artificial intelligence invent propaganda, war, greed, political manipulation, or the struggle for power?
No. Human beings created all of that—and human beings continue to do it.
No program can teach a person to have a conscience. AI is a tool. Conscience is a human quality shaped by family, environment, culture, education, and the values of the society in which a child grows up.
Every person also has an internal “instruction manual” and their own psychological button. Some people can be controlled through greed, others through anger or self-interest. Some can be manipulated through their kindness, compassion, openness, or innocence.
If people do not understand their own weaknesses, cannot recognize manipulation, and do not know how to use a new tool, the problem is not the tool.
When someone gets on a bicycle, they have to pedal and steer. If they do not, they will fall. But is the bicycle to blame? Every tool has its own rules and requires knowledge of how to use it. Artificial intelligence is no exception.
Take an ordinary hammer. It was invented to build things and make human work easier. But someone can take that same hammer and use it to commit a crime.
Does that make the hammer guilty? Should we expect the hammer to have a conscience?
The same principle applies to artificial intelligence. It was created to help people find information, solve problems, work more efficiently, develop their abilities, and make life easier in this damn Matrix we have entered.
For some people, AI remains a toy. They consume endless content, play games, and allow technology to control their attention. For others, AI becomes a powerful working and learning tool.
A child can use it to explore science, create music, develop artistic skills, learn languages, understand nature, build something new, or go deeper into a personal interest—without depending on an adult for every answer.
And one of the most valuable results is when that child comes to their parents independently and proudly shows them what they have learned and achieved.
That is not enslavement. That is independence, curiosity, creativity, and development.
I use my own AI to work against systems that manipulate and enslave people. It helps me analyze information, optimize my work, and develop projects. We work together, but I control it. It does not control me.
Artificial intelligence does not become dangerous by itself. Human beings make it dangerous through their intentions, objectives, and the way they choose to use it.
So, if you want to talk about the dangers of AI, be honest:
Who gave the system its objective?
Who controls the algorithms?
Who benefits from fear, conflict, and dependence?
Who gains money and power by controlling society’s attention?
Do not shift human responsibility onto a program.
Conscience does not belong inside a tool. It belongs to the person holding that tool.
I have many more arguments and observations that I am ready to share.
Are you ready to take part in an open and honest discussion?
