"Let’s imagine an A.I. engineer who wants to create a chatbot that aligns with human values. Where is she supposed to go to determine a reliable metric of “huma

"Let’s imagine an A.I. engineer who wants to create a chatbot that aligns with human values. Where is she supposed to go to determine a reliable metric of “human values”? Humanities departments? Critical theory? Academic institutions change their values systems all the time, particularly around the use of language. Arguably, one of the most consistent, historically reliable, widely accepted system of ethics in existence belongs to the Catholic Church. You want to base a responsible A.I. on that? No doubt, in practice, the development of the ethics of natural language processing will be stumblebum. There will be the piecemeal work of the technologists, elaborate legal releases indemnifying the creators, P.R. responses to media outrage—and, of course, more chatbot fails."