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Hard Choices and Hard Limits for Artificial Intelligence

📅 2021
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Hard Choices and Hard Limits for Artificial Intelligence Bryce Goodman Department of Philosophy University of Oxford United Kingdom [email removed] ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is supposed to help us make better choices [1]. Some of these choices are small, like what route to take to work [27], or what music to listen to [64]. Others are big, like what treatment to administer for a disease [74] or how long to sentence someone for a crime [2]. If AI can assist with these big decisions, we might think it can also help with hard choices, cases where alternatives are neither better, worse nor equal but on a par [15]. The aim of this paper, however, is to show that this view is mistaken: the fact of parity shows that there are hard limits on AI in decision making and choices that AI cannot, and should not, resolve. KEYWORDS Value alignment; fairness; hard choices; AI ethics 1 Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is supposed to help us make be...

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