Tom Stoneham
British philosopher; professor of philosophy at the University of York, working on the philosophy of mind, early modern philosophy and the ethics of digital technology and AI.
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Their wordsthe concept of vouching for someone or for a source enables us to construct a horizontal form of trust, i.e. trust without authority relations.
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Their wordsThe problem with saying that "slow is wrong" is that were that true, then it would be wrong to engage in the primary market, but without the primary market, the secondary markets can't exist. So, as a maxim, it is self-defeating.
↗'Slow is wrong' - The Imperative to AI in Financial Marketsblog.24601.net
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Their wordsThis should remind us that falling behind is not intrinsically bad. Rather, it is only bad if your success criterion is a competitive one.
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Our reading
There is no moral imperative to embrace a technology merely because it could raise productivity.
Their wordsIt would be impossible to make the maxim 'embrace technology' a Kantian Categorical Imperative.
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Their wordsThere is no rogue AI now or in the near future. However, there clearly are rogue companies behaving irresponsibly.
↗Hype, Hacks, and X-Riskblog.24601.net 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsCriminal prosecution for hacking, which is a significant crime, would have more effect than regulation of the technology.
↗Hype, Hacks, and X-Riskblog.24601.net 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThrough the mechanism of allegedly 'objective' performance metrics, they are value aligned to a set of values which resembles Ayn Rand's Objectivism. We are creating artificial ayn-randism.
↗Hype, Hacks, and X-Riskblog.24601.net 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut what strikes me is that such behaviour is an inevitable consequence of how these models are designed.