AI and the Limits of Human Judgement by Adam Ford
MORE MORAL THAN US?Why the question matters for alignment, moral progress, and long-term flourishing…
On some measurable moral tasks, today’s AI already looks competitive with humans, or better, and the alignment community is oddly quiet about it. But moral capability is not the same as moral motivation: a system can compute the right answer without being moved by it. Pulling apart knowledge, reasoning, judgement and motivation is what makes the question tractable, and what makes the honest answer uncomfortable. Caveats attached, in quantity.
Almost nobody working on AI alignment wants to say this out loud, at least not about current systems. So let’s say it: AI might already be more moral than us, in some measurable respects.
Two questions fall straight out of that:
Two questions fall straight out of that:
>Why does it feel like a dangerous thing to claim?
>And is human moral reasoning really a standard worth bragging about as an alignment target?
>And is human moral reasoning really a standard worth bragging about as an alignment target?
You can attend virtually via Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/95836417359…
https://zoom.us/j/95836417359…
Meeting ID: 958 3641 7359
Passcode: 704370
Passcode: 704370
PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
Skeptics Café will be held in the Mahogany Room at The Stolberg Hotel, 197 Plenty Road Preston. The 86 tram route is close, and Bell train station – situated on the Epping line – is a short walk away. Bell Street Bus Co. run buses regularly along Bell Street. Search their details on the Transport Victoria site.
Skeptics Café will be held in the Mahogany Room at The Stolberg Hotel, 197 Plenty Road Preston. The 86 tram route is close, and Bell train station – situated on the Epping line – is a short walk away. Bell Street Bus Co. run buses regularly along Bell Street. Search their details on the Transport Victoria site.
Start Time: 6:00pm for dinner and a chat. 7:30pm for beginning of the talk.
We aim to wrap up after 9:00pm.
Donation appreciated: $5.00