The point of the chapter is to draw attention to and comment on the way analytic philosophy has converged with technology and policy and discuss some of the questions of responsibility in the development of this technology. There have also been attempts to use language AI to enable machines to make moral judgments and equip technology to be moral on our behalf. I wish to challenge this stated intention to “close the gap from human-level performance” and challenge on a conceptual level whether machines can make “correct” moral judgments. The assumption that language models can or ought to be qualified alongside human moral agents is dangerous. Whether or not machines will be making better or worse decisions is not the point; there is something inherently immoral about outsourcing moral decision-making in the first place. No answer generated by a machine would be acceptable to human beings, if only due to the fact that it was generated by a machine. I conclude by suggesting certain considerations for issues of responsibility in language technology and ultimately stress the importance of what AI technology cannot do as a practical and morally coherent position.

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Is Moral Advice from Artificial Intelligence Artificial?

  • Nicholas Melgaard

摘要

The point of the chapter is to draw attention to and comment on the way analytic philosophy has converged with technology and policy and discuss some of the questions of responsibility in the development of this technology. There have also been attempts to use language AI to enable machines to make moral judgments and equip technology to be moral on our behalf. I wish to challenge this stated intention to “close the gap from human-level performance” and challenge on a conceptual level whether machines can make “correct” moral judgments. The assumption that language models can or ought to be qualified alongside human moral agents is dangerous. Whether or not machines will be making better or worse decisions is not the point; there is something inherently immoral about outsourcing moral decision-making in the first place. No answer generated by a machine would be acceptable to human beings, if only due to the fact that it was generated by a machine. I conclude by suggesting certain considerations for issues of responsibility in language technology and ultimately stress the importance of what AI technology cannot do as a practical and morally coherent position.