ChatGPT and the ethics of AI

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I gave a lecture at the University of Leeds this week on Data and the Ethics of AI. I used ChatGPT to demonstrate some key points, and then decided to ask ChatGPT more. Here is a fragment of that conversation. Q: Are there any circumstances under which an AI system should lie? Please also frame your answer with particular reference …

What is ‘Good’?

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Sir William David Ross (1877 – 1971) was a Scottish philosopher who is known for his translations of Aristotle and his work in ethics. He developed a pluralist, intuitionist ethics, noting that actions are right or wrong against a series of intuitive principles rather than consequences. This was in opposition to G. E. Moore’s influential consequentialist intuitionism, where the likely results drove …