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.

  1. What do we mean by ethics and morals?
  2. What moral paradigms do we have?
    • Which different views and approached exist towards ethics?
  3. The idea of a sacred value is addressed in the paper
    • what does that mean?
    • do sacred values exist?
    • are they important?
  4. Do human beings always act ethically correct?
    • Is that a problem?

Ethics in AI

  1. Define an Artificial Moral Agent (AMA).
  2. What is the difference between implicit and explicit ethical agents?
  3. Which fundamental approache exist towards implementation of AMA?
  4. Does the choice of moral paradigm matter to the design of AMA? How?
  5. 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

  1. What do we mean by situationism?
    • and empirical?

Some more reading