This week I’m publishing a guest post by my PhD student, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello.
Victória is the first author of a new working paper called The Moralization of Artificial Intelligence. I adore this paper. So much so that I want to claim it as all my own. I talk about it at conferences and invited talks all the time because it illuminates something real about the moment we’re living in. Conversations about AI have stopped being normal conversations. They’re fever-pitched, with people holding strong opinions they sometimes refuse to interrogate. Otherwise smart people lose their minds if someone dares say something appreciative about a technology that is, despite all the hype and doom, normal technology.
Victória’s paper explains why. She shows how attitudes toward AI have shifted from mere preferences into something moral, something good-versus-evil. I’ll say no more, because her own words are all you need.
Before I go, a few words about Victória herself. She is not merely brilliant…
