Yoshua Bengio @ #DLRLSS discussing the elephant in the room... Couldn't summarize it better myself. Full round of applause followed.pic.twitter.com/ZCyGa4QKoK
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Yes, but moral leadership comes from people with relevant qualifications. Yoshua Bengio is an expert in computer science, but not ethics. A proper approach to determining ethical career projects should come from people or groups with more ethical knowledge, such as
@80000 Hours.
Are you seriously suggesting the effective moral leaders in history got their PhD in ethics first before they set about changing the world....? I really don't see the problem with Yoshua going out on a limb and saying "hey....I don't want to work on killer drones and that's ok"
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1/2 Of course he is legally and socially free not to work on killer drones - just as he is free TO work on them, if he so chooses. But morally, it's an unsound view, because developing better military drone technology in the West will have good consequences for the world.
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2/2 You don't need a PhD, or even to listen to people with PhDs. The important thing is just serious attention and study in looking at what makes the world a better place. Instead of going by fashionable gut feelings, like fear of killer robots.
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Does Yoshua have an extensive track record of serious work on the subject of ethics? I see he's been involved in the "Montreal Declaration", but I haven't found any scholarly work on the subject from him.
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