AI Ethics
Reading
Please read Cervantes et al 2020
Note, in particular, the following ideas.
- realism and anti-realism as paradigms of morality
- what is the difference?
- which one do you believe (most) in?
- what does the paradigm have to say for the feasibility of machine ethics?
- definition (bottom of page 505)
- implicit, explicit, and full ethical agents
- what is the difference?
- to what extent can they be reconsiled with the two paradigms?
- top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid approaches
- what is the difference?
- to what extent can they be reconsiled with the two paradigms?
- (page 512) What is meant by a sacred value?
- is this an important concept in ethics? in your opinion?
- find at least one example of a proposed AMA system which has been implemented and tested
- which principles does it use?
- how is it tested?
- Note if you are a slow reader, just pick one at random and invest your time to understand that one system
Briefing (Discussion)
Ethics in General
Let’s disregard AI for the time being.
- What do we mean by ethics and morals?
- What moral paradigms do we have?
- Which different views and approached exist towards ethics?
- The idea of a sacred value is addressed in the paper
- what does that mean?
- do sacred values exist?
- are they important?
- Do human beings always act ethically correct?
- Is that a problem?
Ethics in AI
- Define an Artificial Moral Agent (AMA).
- What is the difference between implicit and explicit ethical agents?
- Which fundamental approache exist towards implementation of AMA?
- Does the choice of moral paradigm matter to the design of AMA? How?
- Moral dilemmata examples.
- How do we resolve them as human beings?
- How do we want an AMA to solve them?
Principles introduced in the paper
- What do we mean by situationism?
- and empirical?