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Why Machines Can't Be Ethical
- Without bodies and life histories they won't be able to establish that they possess wisdom or they are compassionate or that they understand ethical dilemmas because those concepts all require these human interactions with each other where the tone of voice and histories matter.
- The data set or the book knowledge from which the machine will learn ethics is not useful at all because what you would want the machine to be learning from is the individual speaker's moral authority which an AI wouldn't find in the data sets.
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Can We Pre Program Machines To Be Ethical?
Some solutions put forward are-
- Specifying rules to determine correct decisions taken by AI systems.
- Maintaining a degree of human input which would kick in when an ethical decision had to be made.
However, the problem with specifying what a machine should do is tha...
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Bodies And Minds
Part of what it is to be ethically precious, to be an individual, is to have a face and a body in which individuality is inscribed.
Consider a thought experiment: try to imagine a circumstance where you feel as though you murdered a machine, in switching off an AI, will you feel the same w...
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Can A Machine Grow And Learn To Possess Moral Authority?
Once we start using this argument, we lose contact with the idea of machines. What is it for something to be a machine? If a machine has a childhood, life history, and has grown and is mortal, would you be able to call them machines?
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Who Has The Moral Authority
The person who has wisdom from his history and experiences should have the moral authority to give advice. These are the people we should listen to.
We like to pretend that we could teach people to be ethical. But you can't live an ethical life just by getting academic knowledge on ethics....
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The Problem With Taking Moral Advice
If someone is facing a moral dilemma and they just lookup for an answer from AI or even a human, then they're not taking that decision seriously. The idea that we could build moral machines presupposes that the nature of ethics is such that we could outsource our decision to machines or t...
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Types Of Moral Advice
What people are looking for from moral advice-
- Sometimes for empirical information
- Sometimes for theory and knowledge
- Sometimes for wisdom - They're looking for someone who knows what they're going through and has expe...
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Part of what it is to be ethically precious, to be an individual, is to have a face and a body in which individuality is inscribed.
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1. Don't Demand The World To Be Nice
We cannot expect people to be nice to us all the time, because they aren't. Humans possess the full range of emotions, desires, and mindstates: from angry, to happy, from compassionate to sadistic.
There are as many opinions as there are people, including opinions we don't like. Resiting t...
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