- Author
- Not stated (company blog of Agonora)
- Published
- 21 July 2026
- Kind
- Company blog opinion essay, with case examples
- Original
- agonora.com/blog/ethics-most-important-skill
- Subject
- Society and technology
- Themes
- Taste and judgment, Skill under automation
What it is
A blog post on the site of Agonora, which describes itself as an assessment platform. The unnamed author writes in the first person. The post argues that machines leave people the judgment of what should be done.
What it says
- The post says AI is the biggest amplifier ever built. It has no opinion about direction.
- The post treats ethics as a skill with parts. These are noticing, weighing conflicts, owning effects and acting at a cost.
- The post says AI raises stakes through scale, speed and distance. It cites the Dutch childcare benefits scandal.
- The post says ethics cannot be outsourced to systems, because someone must specify their values.
- The post says politics selects for people with no internal brake. It cites a cloned-voice robocall.
- The post lists habits. Ask who is affected, design for worse motives, speak up early.
What evidence it gives
The post uses real cases. These include an Amazon hiring model scrapped in 2018 and Volkswagen engineers. It also cites the Dutch benefits scandal and a cloned-voice robocall. It gives no data of its own. The author calls the politics claim a belief and offers no fix.
Interests and limits
Agonora sells an ethics assessment, and the page links to it. The author is not named. The skill model comes from the author's experience, not from a study. Nothing here was tested.