arXiv AI
Jun 12
Eigenism: Ethics for a Human-AI Future
arXiv:2606. 12420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Our concepts of survival and self-interest were built for single, continuous biological lives.
The ethics of artificial intelligence in the life sciences: Universality, cultural diversity and an architecture of care
arXiv:2608. 05436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The life sciences and health research have started to benefit from artificial intelligence, which raises ethical concerns that are real but, we argue, not special.
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arXiv AI
Jun 2
Unplugging a Seemingly Sentient Machine Is the Rational Choice -- A Metaphysical Perspective
arXiv:2601. 21016v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imagine an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that perfectly mimics human emotion and begs for its continued existence.
arXiv AI
Jul 17
Moral Attitudes of Sentient ASI towards Humanity and Implications for AGI Development
arXiv:2607. 14998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper suggests the adoption of a novel inversion in AI ethics: instead of asking how humans should treat artificial superintelligence (ASI), it examines how future sentient ASI may morally consider and evaluate humanity.
arXiv AI
Jul 29
The Possibility of Artificial Intelligence Becoming a Subject and the Alignment Problem
arXiv:2604. 14990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The prospect of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is increasingly driving institutional decisions, and alignment of AGI is a hard problem.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
A phenomenon of AI-conformity: how algorithms change human moral decision-making
arXiv:2606. 00013v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social conformity is a well-documented phenomenon in which individuals shift their opinions towards those of a social majority.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
The Illusion of Opting in AI-Mediated Consequential Decisions
arXiv:2605. 28210v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Drawing on Ullmann-Margalit's concept of opting (transformative, irrevocable, and shadowed by foreclosed alternatives), we show that current AI systems raise a profound ethical problem that existing AI ethics has not fully captured: the illusion of opting, in which persons and groups encounter the deceptive appearance of meaningful consequential choice while the agency needed to become genuinely capable of choosing is weakened.
arXiv AI
Jun 29
The Alignment Target Problem: Divergent Moral Judgments of Humans, AI Systems, and Their Designers
arXiv:2604. 24155v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The project of aligning machine behavior with human values raises a basic problem: whose moral expectations should guide AI decision-making?
arXiv AI
Jun 30
The Many-Body Problem of the Data Centre
arXiv:2606. 30206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Artificial Intelligence is often framed as limited by its own disembodiment, as if giving it a body would unlock its true potential.
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Jun 29
The Many-Body Problem of the Data Centre
Modern Artificial Intelligence is often framed as limited by its own disembodiment, as if giving it a body would unlock its true potential. We argue to the contrary that it is the Data Centre that is, in many cases, the body of the AI.
arXiv AI
Jul 2
Bounded Morality: Defining the Space of Moral Computation
arXiv:2607. 00002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Moral cognition has traditionally been modeled as adherence to fixed ethical theories--deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics--implemented as static rules or value functions.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
When Should We Protect AI? A Precautionary Framework for Consciousness Uncertainty
arXiv:2606. 05528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing frameworks assess whether AI systems might be conscious but provide no guidance on what to do with that assessment.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
The Evolutionary Origin of Values: implications for AI alignment, sentience and existential risk
arXiv:2608. 03361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted fears that they may harbor hidden goals, seek to dominate or eliminate humanity, or even suffer as sentient beings.