Ethics for the Age of AI

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Ethics for the Age of AI

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Mahmoud Khatami asks, can machines make good moral decisions?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/168/Ethics_for_the_Age_of_AI
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Re: Ethics for the Age of AI

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This article, as many, if not most on related topics before it, makes the functional error of missing the reality that with hotly debated topics, a reasonable argument can be made for either argument (hence why it's hotly debated in the first place). Thus if AI closed it's virtual eyes and flipped a virtual coin, to make a selection, at least a significant minority of human observers would agree with the "decision making", regardless of what it might be.

It's only in obvious moral decisions where there is almost unanimous consensus would an AI decision be labeled incorrect, should it be against the vast human majority opinion.
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Re: Ethics for the Age of AI

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Had a good laugh feeding the article into Chatgpt, mostly to make it more readable, in my mother language, but also to argue agains the posh progressive article writer perspective, from my striving job jobber perspective… i don’t hate AI as much.
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