AI and Moral Intelligence: Preserving Humane Thinking in a Machine Age - Shannon Vallor, Santa Clara University

Title: AI and Moral Intelligence: Preserving Humane Thinking in a Machine Age

Abstract:In the coming decades, the spread of commerc ially viable artificial intelligence is projected to transform virtually e very sociotechnical system, from finance and transportation to healthcareand warfare. Less often discussed is the growing impact of AI on human pr actices of self-cultivation, those critical to the development of intellectual and moral virtues. The art of moral self-cultivation is as old as human history and is one of the few truly unique capacities of our species. Today this humane art has largely receded from the modern mind, with increasingly devastating consequences on local and planetary scales. Reclaiming it may be essential to averting catastrophe for our species, and many others. How will AI impact this endangered art? What uses of AI risk impeding or denaturing our practices of moral cultivation? What uses of AI couldamplify and sustain our moral intelligence? Which is a better goal for ethical AI: machines that are humane? Or machines that are humanizing?

If you wish to meet with Dr. Vallor, please contact Peter Reiner (peter.reiner@ubc.ca). 

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