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It's worse than that. The position was software engineer. The guy wasn't an ethicist, he just decided that's what he was working on.
by slowmovintarget 4y ago
It's worse than that. The position was software engineer. The guy wasn't an ethicist, he just decided that's what he was working on.
- tsimionescu 4y agoAccording to him, he was assigned to the AI ethics team to work on an AI ethics problem - just not on the particularly idiotic wild goose chase he embarked on.
- cyber_kinetist 4y agoEven the people with philosophy degrees who claim to be "AI ethics experts" actually seem to be incredibly naive with their philosophy, to a very comical extent. The real issues lies in: the notion of "intelligence" needs to be investigated more thoroughly in a historical and social context, since what we call as "intelligence" has always shifted and changed throughout centuries. But only a few curious philosophers are exploring this area (and you usually don't see them working in Silicon Valley companies like Google!)
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoWithin which historical context does it even make sense to ask this questions. Sounds like something Žižek might say. Out of curiosity, who are some Žižek adjacent philosophers a person might find interesting.