Can AI Be Used Responsibly? The Ethics of Care in a Machine Age with Corinna Bellizzi, PhD, MBA

Almost every conversation about AI is about power — what it can do, what jobs it will replace, and who it will enrich. Almost no one is asking what it would mean to bring care to this technology. In this solo episode of Care More Be Better, host Corinna Bellizzi, PhD, draws on Carol Gilligan's ethics of care, her own doctoral research into regenerative enterprise, and her personal experience using Claude and ChatGPT in dissertation research to make the case that AI can be an amplifier of care — but only with intention, transparency, and accountability. She covers the copyright settlement Anthropic reached with authors in July 2026, the attention question, the RFK Jr. MAHA report hallucinations, and the four questions everyone should ask before adopting any AI tool. Complete Blog: https://caremorebebetter.com/can-ai-be-used-responsibly-the-ethics-of-care-in-a-machine-age/ ## Chapter Markers - 00:00 — Opening Question: What Does It Mean to Care When Machines Mediate How We Learn? - 01:00 — Introduction: A Solo Episode on AI Ethics - 02:00 — AI Is Already in Your Life Whether You Chose It or Not - 03:00 — What Ethics of Care Actually Is — Gilligan, Noddings, and the Care Tradition - 05:00 — Ethics of Care and Regeneration as Near-Synonyms - 05:30 — The Care Questions AI Raises: Copyright, Ecology, Labor, Attention - 06:00 — The Copyright Reckoning: Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement and 35+ Active Cases - 06:30 — The Ecological Footprint: Water, Energy, and Whose Community Hosts the Data Center - 07:00 — The Labor Question: Whose Words Trained the Model? - 07:30 — The Attention Question: What Happens to Wonder When Answers Arrive Instantly? - 08:00 — The Whale Bends Story — and What Was Lost - 10:00 — Using AI in Doctoral Research: Building Intelligent Queries - 12:00 — Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Hallucination Problem - 13:30 — The RFK Jr. MAHA Report: What Happens When Nobody Checks - 14:00 — Using Claude for the RSD15 Paper: Editing Without Outsourcing the Thinking - 16:00 — AI in Podcast Production and the Disclosure Question - 17:30 — The Website Disclaimer: What It Says and Why - 18:30 — AI as Amplifier of Care — Used With Intention - 19:00 — Four Questions to Ask Before Adopting Any AI Tool - 20:00 — The Freedom Not to Use AI: Your Integrity Is Yours - 20:30 — Closing: Embracing Technology with Intention, Purpose, and Integrity ***"Ethics of care moves us from thinking in rules and regulations, in inputs and outputs, to who is affected and what do they need. This show's name is essentially a care ethics thesis. Care more, be better. The order matters. You have to care first."*** *— Corinna Bellizzi, PhD | Care More Be Better | Episode #301* Resources and References: - In a Different Voice — Carol Gilligan (1982) - Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics — Nel Noddings (1984) - The Ethics of Care — Virginia Held (2006) - Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis — Paul Hawken - Anthropic copyright settlement — Reuters - MAHA Commission report — Washington Post coverage - RSD15 Conference — Relating Systems Thinking and Design - Claude — Anthropic - DuckDuckGo — AI-free search option - Brave Search - Startpage - AI Disclosure — caremorebebetter.com - Scary Smart — Mo Gawdat - From Ideas to Income with AI — Zach & Jason Francis, Ep. 296 (previous episode) **CONNECT & SUPPORT CARE MORE BE BETTER** Substack: https://caremorebebetter.substack.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetter TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caremorebebetter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caremorebebetter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-better **CAUSE PARTNER:** If you value open dialogue, sustainability, and social equity, I invite you to support our new cause partner —Prescott College. To learn more about this effort and to support the show, visit: https://caremorebebetter.com/support/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.