Episode 11.78: The Ethics of AI and why they are unlikely to keep us from its abuse.

Ethical concerns by the wider public and the ethical committees set up by developers are no more likely to protect us from the abuse of AI than similar committees in the armaments industry are likely to protect us from war. Where two parties’ fundamental values differ no amount of argument will reconcile them. Neither are our “foundational” assumptions as fundamental as we suppose: they are the distillates of a set of cultural practices. Different worldviews therefore produce different and incompatible ethics however internally coherent and consistent they may be.