Will AI Make Us Less Ethical?
There is more and more attention to developing ethical AI, but can AI reverse the roles and corrupt our morals?
The age of (narrow) AI
Advances of the past decade or so seem to have heralded the age of AI, or more specifically, the age of narrow AI.
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the thing most of us think about when we hear AI — a sentient, perhaps even conscious artificial mind, that remains very much a question mark. How do we build it? Can something like that even be built?
For now, artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, but displaying a domain-crossing general intelligence is not one of them. AI/machine learning systems are currently fairly constrained in the breadth of their capacities. Data processing and pattern recognition? Sure. Inferring causation and learning from limited examples/samples? Hmm, work in progress…
So, artificial intelligence? Yep. Artificial general intelligence? Not yet. (Then when? Depends on who you’d ask.)
But the lack of general intelligence has not prevented AI from wriggling its way into many aspects of our lives.
