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Beyond Binary Podcast | Prof. Kevin Lee — Can AI Have Virtue, Responsibility, or a “Self”?

What happens when Artificial Intelligence becomes more than a tool — and starts acting like a social force? In this episode of Beyond Binary, global AI ethicist Rupa Singh sits down with Prof. Kevin Lee, legal scholar, philosopher of information, and complexity theorist, to explore one of the most urgent questions of our time: Can our 20th-century legal systems govern 21st-century artificial intelligence? This is not a technical conversation. It is a civilizational one. Prof. Kevin Lee argues that AI cannot be regulated using linear legal thinking — because AI is not linear. It is a complex, adaptive system embedded inside economies, cultures, politics, and human psychology. Together, we explore: 🔹 Virtue & the Self Can machines understand virtue, as described by philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre — or is moral character something only living beings can possess? 🔹 AI Personhood & Legal Fictions Corporations are “legal persons.” Now some want AI to be one too. Are we creating responsibility — or escaping it? 🔹 Complexity & Accountability If AI is distributed across data, developers, cloud platforms, users, and incentives — is our Western legal model of individual liability already obsolete? 🔹 Mind, Consciousness & Illusion Humans hallucinate. Machines hallucinate. But can AI ever develop mindfulness, awareness, or ethical understanding? 🔹 Algorithms, Extremism & Profit Are today’s AI systems structurally designed to amplify anger, outrage, and radicalization because it is profitable — and if so, how can law regulate “negativity”? 🔹 Information vs Wisdom In the age of Generative AI, we are flooded with content but starving for meaning. How should law protect truth, quality, and wisdom instead of just speed and scale? 🔹 The Global Ethics Question Can Western law integrate ethical frameworks like Ubuntu and Buddhism, or will AI governance remain Euro-centric? 🔹 The Middle Way Between reckless innovation and AI bans — is there a balanced, complexity-aware policy path? About Prof. Kevin Lee Kevin Lee is a legal scholar and public intellectual working at the intersection of jurisprudence, AI ethics, and complexity science. A former law professor of Legal Philosophy, Corporate Law, Constitutional Theory, and Japanese Law, he now writes full-time about the future of law in the AI age. His upcoming work will appear at the AI Ethics Conference in Paris. This episode is for: • AI leaders • Policymakers • Lawyers & compliance teams • AI ethics professionals • Thinkers who care about the future of humanity If you believe AI governance is not just technical — but moral, political, and spiritual — this conversation is for you. 👇 Watch. Reflect. And join the dialogue.