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We humans have a multitude of competing ethics in the form of religions; we can't even agree on which one is the right one; programming ethics into AI is going
by bitL 8y ago
We humans have a multitude of competing ethics in the form of religions; we can't even agree on which one is the right one; programming ethics into AI is going back to that chicken-and-egg problem, requiring selecting which philosophical system is the right one. We can view competing religions as optimization algorithms where the best one for given state of world is winning, pressuring other ones to evolve or die off. Would we need competing, multi-GAN style AI "religions" all times at each other's throat as well?
- devoply 8y agoThere is nothing inherently ethical about any religion. They have some ethical concepts in them that might be universal like don't kill but they are easily overridden by don't kill fellow believers. Similarly there is nothing ethical about any society other than within the small confined system of a certain ideology which validates its own ethics. At the end ethics is just a game we play and we can teach computers to play similar games with a certain set of rules. That does not in any way mean that a computer will be ethical, only that it can be taught to observe the norms of the ethical games played by the society it serves using a rule based system that is applied to certain final actions that it has computed it should carry out.