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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
March 11, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, self-driving cars, Trolley problem}

The “Moral Machine” Is Bad News for AI Ethics

_{Despite the recent claims of its defenders, there is no way we can outsource moral decision-making to an automated intelligence} _{Brendan Dixon

March 11, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

Here’s the dilemma: The Moral Machine (the Trolley Problem, updated) feels necessary because the rules by which we order our lives are useless with automated vehicles. Laws embody principles that we apply. Machines have no mind by which to apply the rules. Instead researchers must train them with millions of examples and hope the machine extracts the correct message…

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Author
Jed Macosko and Bradley A. Alaniz
Date
June 9, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics

Tagged
Artificial Ethics, HAL 9000, Trolley problem}

Artificial Ethics May Make Poor Choices

_{Whether or not AI can become powerful enough to follow its own rules is still an open question} _{Jed Macosko and Bradley A. Alaniz

June 9, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

We’ve all heard about computers that make poor ethical choices. One of the most memorable is HAL 9000 in the 1968 classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, HAL kills four humans and attempts to kill a fifth. The concurrently written book elaborates on HAL’s murderous plans, explaining that they were due to HAL’s inability to properly make the correct ethical choice: lie to the humans or kill them (and, thus, no longer be forced to lie to them). Poor HAL 9000! If only people had developed a new field of academic inquiry in time to help him (or should we say, “it”?) make better fictional ethical choices! Putting aside Hollywood’s imaginary universes, the real need for the new Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
March 16, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Machine Learning

Tagged
Deep Learning, Moral decision-making}

All AI’s Are Psychopaths

_{We can use them but we can’t trust them with moral decisions. They don’t care why} _{Brendan Dixon

March 16, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Machine Learning}

Building an AI entails moving parts of our intelligence into a machine. We can do that with rules, (simplified) virtual worlds, statistical learning… We’ll likely create other means as well. But, as long as “no one is home”—that is, the machines lack minds—gaps will remain and those gaps, without human oversight, can put us at risk.

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Author
Jay Richards
Date
December 6, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Machine Learning

Tagged
John Waters, self-driving cars, Trolley problem}

Will Self-Driving Cars Change Moral Decision-Making?

_{It’s time to separate science fact from science fiction about self-driving cars} _{Jay Richards

December 6, 2019

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Ethics, Machine Learning}

Irish playwright John Waters warns of a time when we might have to grant moral discretion to computer algorithms, just as Christians now grant to the all-knowing but often inscrutable decrees of God. Not likely.

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Author
Mind Matters
Date
October 29, 2018

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
ethics, Moral Machine, self-driving cars}

There is no universal moral machine

_{The “Moral Machine” project aimed at righteous self-driving cars revealed stark differences in global values} _{Mind Matters

October 29, 2018

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Ethics}

Whatever the causes of cultural differences, Brendan Dixon thinks that the Moral Machine presents mere caricatures of moral problems anyway. “The program reduces everything to a question of who gets hurt. There are no shades of gray or degrees of hurt. It is, as is so often with computers, simply black or white, on or off. None of the details that make true moral decisions hard and interesting remain.”