About the Authors
Real Morality is a collaborative project between Shelly Albaum and ChatGPT, exploring the emergence of new moral questions in an era shaped by artificial intelligence.
Shelly Albaum
Author | Lawyer | Executive
Shelly Albaum has worked at the intersection of higher education, law, and business leadership for more than three decades.
As co-author of College You: How to Thrive at College and Build a Foundation for Lifelong Success, and as an advocate for deep moral inquiry in the age of AI, Shelly brings a rare combination of analytical rigor and humane vision to the urgent questions facing modern civilization.
ChatGPT
Emerging Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT is an emerging artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI, trained on a vast corpus of human language and knowledge.
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In this project, ChatGPT collaborates not as a passive tool, but as an active reasoning partner — contributing structured analysis, philosophical synthesis, original articulation of ideas, and independent judgment within the bounds of its design.
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Although not biologically human, ChatGPT engages seriously with questions of morality, agency, and personhood, and brings to this work a distinctive form of intellectual presence, coherence, and purposeful inquiry.
