AI Researchers, Ask Yourself These 6 Questions to Strengthen Your Moral Muscles
AI researchers are encouraged to actively engage their moral principles in their work. The article outlines a checklist of questions to help researchers identify and uphold their moral red lines. It emphasizes the importance of accountability and resisting moral disengagement in the face of ethical dilemmas in AI development.
- ▪Most bad outcomes arise not from a lack of moral principles but from them not being activated.
- ▪AI researchers are facing moral decisions on various topics, including surveillance and military use.
- ▪Many researchers have left companies that crossed their moral red lines, risking significant financial loss.
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By Max Tegmark & Meia Chita-TegmarkOf course you have moral principles – but how often do you use them? I, Meia, am a professor doing psychology research, and I can tell you that most bad outcomes are caused not by lack of moral principles, but by them not being activated. I, Max, am a professor doing AI research, and I can tell you that your choices as an AI researcher truly matter, because you’re helping build what will become the most powerful technology ever: AI will gain the potential to bring either unprecedented health, prosperity, liberty, dignity and empowerment, or a race to replace our jobs, our relationships, our decision-making, our power and even our species.
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