Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?

The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people. In the first installment of this series, I wrote about shame as one way that groups of people can mediate and enforce social norms without explicit state intervention. But there is an emergent Silicon Valley gospel that has challenged both the boundaries and the mechanisms of shame in America. What happens when millions of humans across the globe spend hours a day talking to a robot? Who taught that robot right from wrong?