In an email exchange with Jamais Casio we both expressed huge concern about US foreign aid programmes being frozen/dismantled and, in at least some cases, stored emergency food ended up expiring and being destroyed rather than reaching people who needed it. Should it be my concern while living in Australia? When America coughs, the rest…
In a blinded Moral Turing Test, people rated GPT-4’s moral answers higher than humans’ across most measures – yet they could still tell it was AI. Are we priming the public to over-trust machine morality? Interview with Dr Eyal Aharoni, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience Georgia State University Attributions toward artificial…
The Ethics of AI: Why We Need Moral Machines, Not Just Smart Ones In an era defined by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, we often find ourselves wrestling with profound ethical questions. One of the most provocative of these is whether machines can, or should, be given a sense of morality. In this recent video…
In an interview last year, I had a discussion with John Danaher on the Hedonistic Imperative & Superintelligence – a concern he has with HI is that it denies or de-emphasises some kind of moral agency – in moral theory there is a distinction between moral agents (being a responsible actor able to make moral…