Interview with Colin Allen - Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Barbara and co-author of the influential 'Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong'. Colin is a leading voice at the intersection of AI ethics, cognitive science, and moral philosophy, with decades of work exploring how morality might be implemented in artificial agents.
We cover the current state of AI, its capabilities and limitations, and how philosophical frameworks like moral realism, particularism, and virtue ethics apply to the design of AI systems. Colin offers nuanced insights into top-down and bottom-up approaches to machine ethics, the challenges of AI value alignment, and whether AI could one day surpass humans in moral reasoning.
Along the way, we discuss oversight, political leanings in LLMs, the knowledge argument and AI sentience, and whether AI will actually care about ethics.
Science, Technology & the Future
Interview with Colin Allen - Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Barbara and co-author of the influential 'Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong'. Colin is a leading voice at the intersection of AI ethics, cognitive science, and moral philosophy, with decades of work exploring how morality might be implemented in artificial agents.
We cover the current state of AI, its capabilities and limitations, and how philosophical frameworks like moral realism, particularism, and virtue ethics apply to the design of AI systems. Colin offers nuanced insights into top-down and bottom-up approaches to machine ethics, the challenges of AI value alignment, and whether AI could one day surpass humans in moral reasoning.
Along the way, we discuss oversight, political leanings in LLMs, the knowledge argument and AI sentience, and whether AI will actually care about ethics.
See the blogpost: www.scifuture.org/are-machines-capable-of-morality…
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