AI may be systematically adversarial to adversarial cooperation

Parker's vision of ‘adversarial cooperation’ offers a compelling framework for navigating moral disagreement in pluralistic societies, emphasising the need for bioethical expertise grounded in facilitating inclusive dialogue across difference rather than providing definitive answers. His model depends fundamentally on authentic human engagement, where moral authority emerges from demonstrated capacity to navigate complex ethical terrain through principled yet pragmatic processes that honour diverse lived experiences. However, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI, and rapid integration into society and academia, presents profound practical challenges to this framework that extend beyond mere technological disruption to threaten the very foundations of inclusive moral deliberation. We should seek to either align such AI systems with our deliberative frameworks or, at least, design such frameworks with such threats in mind.