Value Space and “Good” Human Values Human values can be conceptualised as occupying regions in a vast objective multidimensional “value space.” These regions reflect preferences for cooperation, survival, flourishing, and minimising harm, among other positive traits. If TAI / SI can approximate the subset of human values deemed “good” (e.g., compassion, fairness, cooperation), while avoiding…
Implications for AI Safety and Indirect Normativity The challenge of understanding value space has moved from a philosophical curiosity to an urgent technical problem. As we approach the development of advanced artificial intelligence, the structure of value and our ability to specify it has become perhaps the most critical challenge facing humanity. This challenge assumes…
The concept of a non-arbitrary objective value space offers a compelling framework for understanding how to navigate to more valuable worlds. This framework presupposes the existence of stance-independent normative truths – metaphysical/ontological, epistemic, scientific & ethical principles that rational agents will converge upon given sufficient cognitive sophistication [1]. Here I will mostly talk in relation…
