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This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
"In this talk I hope to illustrate how AI ethics can avoid the undesirable extremes of two dimensions:
First dimension: Complacency vs Inflation
On the one hand, I will argue that we should eschew the complacent view that AI presents no novel challenges for ethics, the view that AI is just a technology like any other, so extant ethical principles for non-AI technologies are all we need. On the other hand, I will also argue that we should also avoid the inflationary view that the need for new ethical principles for AI derives from the fact that AI systems are themselves moral agents and/or patients.
Second dimension: Reactive systems vs Robots with Obligations
On the one hand, I will argue that the ethical construction of autonomous AI systems (including, but not limited to, autonomous robots such as driverless cars) will require that such systems do more than merely transform an input signal to an output signal (as is prevalent in much machine learning technology); at least part of that transformation, to have the right counterfactual richness that ethics requires, will have to have deliberative structure. On the other hand, AI systems that reason about their ethical obligations and what is morally permissible for them are not a solution since AI systems will not, for the foreseeable future, be the kinds of things that could have ethical obligations or moral permissions.
For each of these dimensions, I give a specific example (a policy, and a design, respectively) that avoids the horns of the dilemma, and the moral hazards they entail." - Ron Chrisley
