Here is another guest post by my PhD student, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello. This is a follow-up to her last essay, where she described the results of one of my favourite lab papers on how AI has become moralized by a minority of people. And, yes, they are a minority despite how loud they are and how much the media covers their grievances.
In this new piece Victória gets at something deeper, the permissibility of moralization itself. She interrogates the assertion that the deontological moralization of artificial intelligence is a perfectly reasonable position. She agrees it could be reasonable, but then asks whether it actually is, given what we know about AI and about how moralization works. You’ll also see that she doesn’t spare me in her analysis. Ouch!
I think the essay is brilliant, but I think that about nearly everything Victória does. I’m grateful she decided to let me reprint her essay here for your enjoyment.
