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The main problem is that even in the field among experts, ethics has extremely low priority. It's shallow not because of laypersons, but because experts don't t
by Sakos 4y ago
The main problem is that even in the field among experts, ethics has extremely low priority. It's shallow not because of laypersons, but because experts don't think ethics are worth thinking about.
- visarga 4y agoUp until a few years ago AI systems were not sophisticated enough to have an impact. Papers only recently started having an ethics section, and even now it's mostly low effort, just write something and get over it.
- jameshart 4y agoRight. If you are concerned that the only writing on ethics of AI is by people who lack the technical understanding of the field to meaningfully comment, then it is incumbent on the people who are technically competent in the field to meaningfully engage in discussing ethics. As it is I see AI researchers engaging in a curious doublethink: both assuming that someone else is thinking about the ethical questions, and at the same time whenever someone raises an ethical critique, dismissing it as technically unsophisticated.