Using Deep Learning to Make Ethical Decisions

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Rilik: The research is somehow veiled. It's presented as, this is how we can get a computer to make ethical judgments. Choss in some deep learning and algorithms, and boom, you have this robot that can give responses like 'i hate the jews so ocas' Rilik: Wouldn't it be just a much better idea to come up with all the potential ethical questions this robot will well encounter? Like, i don't understand the right responses? Well, les, then we could like, just do it ourselves.

David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon College commencement speech “This is Water”. How can we escape the prison and prism of our (literally) self-centered perspective? Can we choose to adjust our natural default settings, take a break from our running inner monologue, and pay attention to what’s in front of us right now? Is DFW appealing to Buddhist ideas or something more general that you can be found across all spiritual traditions?

Plus we ask the AI ethics program “Ask Delphi” some tough moral questions (spoiler alert: "just the tip" is "rude"), and almost get into a big fight about the potential of AI ethical robots (but we’re saving that argument for a future episode).