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An 800-Year-Old Idea Walks Into the AI Debate: Keep Your Judgement Sovereign

At the Fifth Kaoting Forum in Nanping on 17–18 October, scholars applied Zhu Xi's distinction between heavenly principle and disordered appetite to AI: using AI is neutral, Fang Xudong argued, but surrendering your judgement to the algorithm is a moral failure — an idea now doing work in debates about override, education and governance.