John Basl

“It does seem problematic to have people sort of promoting plagiarism,” said John Basl, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University in Boston who specializes in AI and data ethics, and who also is a faculty affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.

“We’re currently in a crisis period, where we lack the ethical capacity to solve this problem,” said John Basl, a Northeastern University philosopher who specializes in emerging technologies.

John Basl, associate director of AI and Data Ethics Initiatives at the Ethics Institute of Northeastern University, says the controversy is another instance of a “broader kind of failure” in artificial intelligence.