Quick Answer: AI ethics directly affects your employment prospects, creditworthiness, and security clearances through algorithmic decisions. Seven ethical pillars guide responsible AI: Human Agency, Technical Robustness, Privacy, Societal Wellbeing, Accountability, Transparency, and Diversity/Fairness. "Trying to remove training data from an LLM is like trying to remove sugar from cake."

• Amazon's 2014-2017 recruiting AI learned and perpetuated gender bias
• Catastrophic unlearning: removing training data degrades model performance
• Seven actions: stay informed, raise concerns, design transparency, advocate diversity
• Support governance, choose ethical companies, educate others