QUOTE · 2026-04-30

Immanuel Kant — On delegating one's will to a machine as the gravest form of heteronomy

“To say 'the chatbot did it' — and to imagine that the saying dissolves one's own responsibility — is to commit the gravest form of heteronomy: to outsource one's own will to a mechanism, as if the mechanism, by being interposed between the maxim and the deed, could absorb the moral weight of the maxim itself.”
— Immanuel Kant — On the Imputation of Mechanical Acts

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