AI Outscored Humans in a Blinded Moral Turing Test - Should We Be Worried? Dr Eyal Aharoni Explains

In a blinded Moral Turing Test, people rated GPT-4’s moral answers higher than humans’ across most measures - yet they could still tell it was AI. Are we priming the public to over-trust machine morality?

Interview with Dr Eyal Aharoni, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience Georgia State University

Attributions toward artificial agents in a modified Moral Turing Test
Nature Article : https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

0:00 Intro
0:42 What motivated the project?
6:23 What does the Moral Turing Test measure?
9:37 The importance of 'care' in ethical reasoning
12:11 Surprising results
13:36 What would you change about the MTT study?
18:06 AI moral responses rated higher than human responses
20:19 Beliefs & attitudes about AI sharing moral information
23:20 AI maximization and overconfidence
25:35 Dealing with Sycophancy in AI
27:35 The Comparative Moral Turing Test on large sample of philosophers
29:47 What do the findings from these studies imply for public trust in AI moral reasoning?
34:50 Enfeeblement
38:13 Counteracting enfeeblement
46:45 Criteria for moral reasoning in AI
50:37 Does moral understanding require phenomenology?
53:18 Indirect Normativity
56:22 Moral realism
1:01:35 Dealing with un-guardrailed AI .. offence/defence tradeoff
1:04:37 Moral Realism more popular amongst philosophers than anti-realism
1:06:59 Should AI be legally responsible?
1:12:34 AI: Moral actor / moral patient
1:16:05 Transparency and explainability around moral decision making in AI
1:18:01 Minds obey physical laws, radical interpretability & the explanatory gap
1:21:45 Existential security
1:22:58 Morality faking - alignment faking - how to counter?
1:25:28 AI drivers licence
1:26:36 Trade-off between security & privacy
1:29:34 Dual use, omni use technology
1:31:09 AI optimising value proxies
1:34:12 International Math Olympiad gold medal level status achieved by Google Gemini
1:37:50 An International Moral Olympiad / Ethics Bowl
1:39:22 AI control vs motivation, Kantian deontology vs utilitarianism
1:41:05 Pluralism
1:43:23 Lessons learned from the MTT study

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