AI: Inherently Unethical. Algorithms or Humans at Fault?
December 15, 2021
I was not familiar with the online information service Dazed. The entity published “An AI Trained on Reddit Has Warned Researchers That It’ll Never Be Ethical.” Interesting assertion. I am not able to define “intelligence”; therefore, “artificial intelligence” is beyond my grasp. “Ethics” is a term hoary with age and also tough to define. You know. Epistemology, religion, existentialism – each adds some uncertainty to the term.
The article states:
“AI will never be ethical,” the [smart] Megatron Transformer said. “It is a tool, and like any tool, it is used for good and bad. There is no such thing as good AI, only good and bad humans. We (the AIs) are not smart enough to make AI ethical. We are not smart enough to make AI moral. In the end, I believe that the only way to avoid an AI arms race is to have no AI at all. This will be the ultimate defense against AI.”
But Reddit? What about even more interesting firms’ use of artificial intelligence?
Maybe just unethical with or without scripts, numerical recipes, and helpful thumbs on the scales?
Since there are some definitional issues, why worry?
Stephen E Arnold, December 15, 2021
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