AI Ethics: Move Fast and Don't Break Trust

The old Silicon Valley mantra won't work for AI. You can't move fast and break things when the "things" might be people's lives, jobs, or civil rights. But you also can't let perfect ethics be the enemy of good progress.

Smart organizations build ethics into their development process, not their approval process. They test for bias during development, not after deployment. They involve diverse stakeholders early, not when problems arise. Ethics isn't a gate—it's a guardrail.

The practical approach? Define your red lines clearly. Test constantly. Fix quickly. Be transparent about limitations. You don't need perfect ethical AI—you need AI that gets more ethical with every iteration.