François CholletVerified account

Ethical highways are presumably highways that achieve a good tradeoff between all ethically-relevant considerations (e.g. time, health, and wealth). I don’t really see the problem with trying to create ethical highways and to evaluate existing ones by that standard.

too simple? in engineering school ethics they often use physical engineering examples because they're easiest to think about. If bridge fails it's clear whether failure caused death. Not so clear w/software-recommended reading. Many non-software fails involved in those deaths

In general, the paths in and out of machine learning models have at most a generous 5% of the care taken than will be required to build AI that benefits society. Nobody should even quote global performance metrics in industry because they scream, “I GOT NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON.”

The hottest language models are trained on absolute garbage and are totally unsuited for direct use in industry without a lot of careful evaluation and fine tuning for your application with finely sliced inputs and outputs hunting for problems. Kitchen sink models unfit for prod.

There is no chance, because you might make an ethical highway, then someone can just take it and use it for any number of unethical things. Physical engineering makes a poor analogy for software, and money will corrupt any system you build.

If a AI driven car kills a human, who will be held responsible?

It's not the x (tool), it's the f(x) (usage of the tool).

Hello, I was wondering what happend with other human activities and I found bioethics, this is, in my opinion better analogy to ethical AI. And I need to be clear that many people use this terms only to get attention or money.

I don't get the analogy. "Ethical AI" makes no sense, but what can be ethical is the "larger system" that is called... AI ?!? We all need to agree on the definition of AI first

Well said, @fchollet AI is like any other tool. It is the intent of the people who create, use and maintain, to keep it ethical.