The rapid progress of AI has exposed a problem we’ve been avoiding: our environment is becoming increasingly alien. It takes on new shapes with increasing speed and renders our past frameworks obsolete. The world becomes opaque and its logic unclear and our agency starts to dissolve with it. We have been thinking a lot about the ethics of AI, but not about ethics for the AI age. Judging from the public response to AI acceleration, this is becoming a recurrent fear. We argue for a potential solution to this issue: creating a bridge between ethics of the past and our changing world.
This problem is not new. It was named, in the early 1800s, the... (read 1710 more words →)