"AI as a moral hypothesis generator" - with David Enoch.
AI may be useful to help generate moral hypotheses using pattern recognition to find deep ethical patterns (meta-patterns) invisible to humans or hard to see - proposing new moral ideas or testing existing ones within varieties of ethical frameworks like utilitarianism or deontology, acting as a powerful research assistant to challenge assumptions and explore complex moral dilemmas - even though humans remain the ultimate moral judges for the time being we should consider the possibility that AI could be more morally capable across the board than us humans at some stage. Creating a highly capable AMA (artificial moral agent) may require designing AI with explicitly robust reasoning structures suitable for ethical reasoning, using large datasets of moral scenarios, and applying the right kinds of algorithms to sort through, aggregate and/or prioritise different ethical theories to suggest novel or refined moral insights.
Science, Technology & the Future
"AI as a moral hypothesis generator" - with David Enoch.
AI may be useful to help generate moral hypotheses using pattern recognition to find deep ethical patterns (meta-patterns) invisible to humans or hard to see - proposing new moral ideas or testing existing ones within varieties of ethical frameworks like utilitarianism or deontology, acting as a powerful research assistant to challenge assumptions and explore complex moral dilemmas - even though humans remain the ultimate moral judges for the time being we should consider the possibility that AI could be more morally capable across the board than us humans at some stage.
Creating a highly capable AMA (artificial moral agent) may require designing AI with explicitly robust reasoning structures suitable for ethical reasoning, using large datasets of moral scenarios, and applying the right kinds of algorithms to sort through, aggregate and/or prioritise different ethical theories to suggest novel or refined moral insights.
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