Philosopher Walter Sinnott Armstrong and David Edmonds discuss AI's role in ethics, focusing on embedding human values, resolving ethical dilemmas in healthcare, and AI's potential in decision-making processes like kidney transplants and medical diagnoses.
AI can learn ethics from human behavior online for better decision-making.
AI assists in medical ethics decisions by predicting human responses to complex conflicts.
Deep dives
Defining Artificial Intelligence Broadly
Artificial intelligence is broadly defined as occurring when a machine learns to achieve a goal by testing different means to improve its approach. It involves learning and adapting as it progresses, with a focus on finding more effective ways to reach its objectives.
Introducing Human Morality into AI
Ethics can be integrated into AI through a hybrid approach that combines both top-down principles and bottom-up insights gathered from human behavior observed on the internet. By analyzing how individuals act morally in various contexts, including language use and purchasing behavior, AI can learn to predict human responses to ethical dilemmas.
Application in Medical Ethics
In medical ethics, especially regarding kidney allocation, AI can assist in decision-making by considering relevant features that matter to individuals. By collecting and refining these features, AI can predict human responses to complex ethical conflicts, allowing for a more informed and inclusive decision-making process among experts and the general public.
Can AI help us make difficult moral decisions? Walter Sinnott Armstrong explores this idea in conversation with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.
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