Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now

# Summary As AI capabilities become commoditized, ethical judgment—not technical skill—is becoming humanity's most valuable asset. The author argues that ethics is a trainable skill involving noticing moral dimensions, reasoning through conflicting values, understanding second-order effects, and acting against pressure, which becomes critical because AI amplifies the scale, speed, and distance between decisions and their consequences, making individual ethical judgment the only remaining constraint on potential harm.