Moral Quasidilemmas and the Tuvix Problem
In this post I consider the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Tuvix” in the light of my work on moral quasidilemmas. Warning: extremely nerdy post ahead!
2021, Jan 27 — 10 minute readIn this post I consider the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Tuvix” in the light of my work on moral quasidilemmas. Warning: extremely nerdy post ahead!
2021, Jan 27 — 10 minute readIn this blog post, I describe a lesson researchers trying to develop ethical machines can take from Chidi Anagonye, a protagonist of the NBC sitcom “The Good Place”. Spoiler alert for Season 1 of the show!
2019, Jun 07 — 11 minute readAfter reading a new paper arguing that the development of morally competent artificial agents isn’t justified, I started thinking about ethical reasoning capabilities for various physical objects, including the mighty toaster.
2018, Mar 29 — 14 minute readThis post is Part 2 of a series of posts on AI ethics, beginning with my previous post on Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics” and culminating in a post describing a recent paper I wrote about interpretable apprenticeship learning.
2017, Aug 04 — 8 minute readWe interrupt my series on AI ethics to talk about a little bit of clickbait I came across this morning. I conjecture what may have happened in Facebook’s AI system, and why we shouldn’t be concerned.
2017, Jul 30 — 7 minute readWhen I tell people that my research interests are in AI ethics, they often respond by introducing me to Asimov’s three laws of robotics. This post goes out to them (it’s also the first post of a three-part series that will culminate in explaining my recent paper in the Conference on Decision and Control).
2017, Jul 29 — 5 minute read