Spotlight on AI, Innovation & Ethics: Unethical Designs and Everyday Interfaces

This JOSHA Spotlight brings together five perspectives on how artificial intelligence is reshaping everyday interfaces and, with them, the ethical foundations of contemporary life. A covert persuasion experiment on Reddit and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven political disinformation show how opaque systems can bypass consent and weaken democratic trust. A hopeful case of AI-guided drug repurposing reveals the power of reusing old medicines while exposing gaps in current innovation models. In clinical practice, automated documentation promises efficiency yet risks erasing the “chitchat” that makes care relational and humane. A survey of leading AI tools situates these debates in a rapidly evolving ecosystem shaped by business models, regulation, and geopolitics. Through this curated set of articles, JOSHA invites readers to ask not only what AI can do, but what types of societies and values its everyday designs are quietly building.