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Peter Railton on AI and Ethics

July 1, 2022·25 min·2 clips
AlphaGo learned Go from scratch and invented new strategies, challenging what we think machine intelligence can achieve.
Philosopher Peter Railton discusses the ethical challenges of AI, from learning systems like AlphaGo to issues of responsibility and bias in decision-making. He explores how machines might develop moral intuition and warns against outsourcing ethics to AI, emphasizing the need for human oversight.

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A clear, unsentimental look at what AI can do to ethics, and what ethics can still do to AI.

Peter Railton moves the conversation from basic AI questions into harder territory: what changes when machines begin to behave like agents, make decisions, and defend their own capacity to keep acting?

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Listen if you want AI ethics treated as a real philosophical problem, not a slogan.

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