The theory of AI ethics is a quagmire, mostly because traditional notions of ethics and morality tend to fall apart in the face of nonhuman agency, and posthumanism is usually a pose rather than a position. Practical AI ethics usually reflects the sad state of the social sciences
Artificial Intelligence can be seen as the automation of decision making processes. Where AI outperforms humans, decisions will increasingly be made not by humans, and often from the vantage point of nonhuman interests (such as corporate and organizational agents).
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An AI (not AGI) can make your decisions for you but only if you care to live an uncreative life where you only take the paths well trodden, because an AI cannot create new paths/goals via the creation of new knowledge
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Alphazero created new knowledge on how to play Go.
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Sadly, that is a woefully inadequate characterization given the realities of advanced calculus n space topology per Buck: https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Calculus-Third-Creighton-Buck/dp/1577663020 … Most
#AI practitioners still unaware of the penultimate significance of the Garden of Eden conundrum.
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and who programs those automation decision making processes? God?!
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The programmer is not realizing their personal preferences, but a statistical procedure. Once you understand the math, there is no more freedom. Decision criteria have to reflect preferences: easy to get them wrong, but making them explicit will be better than human intuition.
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