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Skeptiko – Science at the Tipping Point

Alex Tsakiris

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AI Ethics is About Truth… Or Maybe Not |638|

Skeptiko – Science at the Tipping Point

1 hour 35 minutes 44 seconds

1 year ago

AI Ethics is About Truth… Or Maybe Not |638|

Ben Byford, Machine Ethics Podcast

Another week in AI and more droning on about how superintelligence is just around the corner and human morals and ethics are out the window. Maybe not. In this episode, Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko/Ai Truth Ethics and Ben Byford of the Machine Ethics podcast engage in a thought-provoking dialogue that challenges our assumptions about AI’s role in discerning truth, the possibility of machine consciousness, and the future of human agency in an increasingly automated world. Their discussion offers a timely counterpoint to the AGI hype cycle.

Key Points:

* AI as an Arbiter of Truth: Promise or Peril? Alex posits that AI can serve as an unbiased arbiter of truth, while Ben cautions against potential dogmatism.

Alex: “AI does not bullshit their way out of stuff. AI gives you the logical flow of how the pieces fit together.”

Implication for AGI: If AI can indeed serve as a reliable truth arbiter, it could revolutionize decision-making processes in fields from science to governance. However, the risk of encoded biases becoming amplified at an AGI scale is significant.

* The Consciousness Conundrum: A Barrier to True AGI? The debate touches on whether machine consciousness is possible or if it’s fundamentally beyond computational reach.

Alex: “The best evidence suggests that AI will not be sentient because consciousness in some way we don’t understand is outside of time space, and we can prove that experimentally.”

AGI Ramification: If consciousness is indeed non-computational, it could represent a hard limit to AGI capabilities, challenging the notion of superintelligence as commonly conceived.

* Universal Ethics vs. Cultural Relativism in AI Systems They clash over the existence of universal ethical principles and their implementability in AI.

Alex: “There is an underlying moral imperative.” Ben: “I don’t think there needs to be…”

Superintelligence Consideration: The resolution of this debate has profound implications for how we might align a superintelligent AI with human values – is there a universal ethical framework we can encode, or are we limited to culturally relative implementations?

* AI’s Societal Role: Tool for Progress or Potential Hindrance? The discussion explores how AI should be deployed and its potential impacts on human agency and societal evolution.

Ben: “These are the sorts of things we don’t want AI running because we actually want to change and evolve.”

Future of AGI: This point raises critical questions about the balance between leveraging AGI capabilities and preserving human autonomy in shaping our collective future.

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