Many of us are struggling to comprehend the implications of the rise of AI and in particular what the implications are for moral behaviour and ethics. At worst we may envisage a scenario similar to SkyNet in the Terminator movies – when the AI becomes self aware and begins learning, then realises that it would be beneficial to take out the humans that created it. The BIG question then is – how do we teach AI to be ethical?
What makes this question so hard are two key issues:- firstly that AI has the capability to make many thousands of decisions very quickly. This is important because of the cumulative nature of the cause and effect relationship to reality. The second issue is the nature of the context that we are now living in. We are no longer living in a stable environment where logical, rational thinking can be used to accurately predict the future. Instead our environment is characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity – what the American military termed a VU…
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