Category: AI

Who’s ethically responsible for an AI’s behavior?

Excellent question.  One I’ve thought about (as a philosopher and an ex-ethics consultant) and raised here. One might suggest that an AI is like a gun, and ‘we’ve’ always argued that those who create guns and bombs should not be held responsible for how they’re used.  Not sure about that, but regardless, an important difference …

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Claude’s Constitution

https://www.anthropic.com/constitution I’m half way through and just can’t … To this point, I have two questions: 1. Have any of the authors prepared a comparable constitution for their own child/ren?  If not, why not?  If so, could I read it? 2. Have any of the authors taken just ONE philosophy course in Ethics?    

Non-Experts are Training AI

https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology The really scarey thing is that those who are training AI have themselves no training in training.   No Education degree. Let alone a Psychology degree and a Philosophy degree.  And they’re juggling concepts like autonomy and morality?  WTF?! And considering the range of applications (unlimited), it’s alarming that they have no Humanities knowledge.  Nor …

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