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Machine Ethics Before the Revolution
Three papers from 2019-2020 asking what a machine would need in order to be a moral agent. The last was finished a month before the GPT-3 paper.
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Collective Immortality as a Postulate for Intergenerational Justice
Kant is usually read as abandoning the postulate of immortality. An argument that he refined it instead into something collective, analyzed through Rawls.
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An Investigation of a Kantian Moral Machine
Machine Ethics Before the Revolution · Part 3
A network of machine 'moral infants,' each holding one axiom, arguing each other's maxims into a shared code, with defectors mixed in to keep it honest.
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An Application of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics to Artificial Intelligence
Machine Ethics Before the Revolution · Part 2
Aristotle says virtue is habituated, not taught. An argument that machine learning is the same process, and that keeping control of it costs us something.
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An Application of Kantian Ethics to Artificial Intelligence
Machine Ethics Before the Revolution · Part 1
Kant's categorical imperative is a procedure. Machines run procedures. An argument that the missing piece is not computation but discourse.
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Ambedo
She likes big books with bigger words.
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A cadet grey catamaran crawled out from behind the point at the mouth of the harbor.