Can A Machine Demonstrate Artificial Integrity

In this powerful talk from the Artificial Unintelligence Conference, innovation leader Hamilton Mann challenges the tech world to rethink what progress in AI really means.

Rather than asking how to make machines smarter, Mann asks how we can make them wiser. Drawing on Warren Buffett’s timeless principle — “If they don’t have integrity, the other two may kill you” — he argues that the same rule applies to the intelligent systems we “hire” into our societies.

Key themes explored:
• Why we should design AI systems because we should, not just because we can
• The difference between artificial intelligence and artificial integrity
• How current AI ethics frameworks fall short by focusing on external governance instead of internal values
• The importance of embedding moral reasoning, not just technical compliance, into machine design

This session reframes AI development as a moral, not just technological, pursuit — a call to build systems that comprehend human values rather than merely compute them.