from Hacker News

The Uselessness of AI Ethics

by bulla on 1/16/24, 11:41 AM with 1 comments

• by bell-cot on 1/16/24, 11:52 AM

  > [...] For these reasons, I argue that AI ethical principles are useless, failing to mitigate the racial, social, and environmental damages of AI technologies in any meaningful sense. [...]

  Um, yes? Anyone even vaguely familiar with the tech realizes that modern "AI" ethics bear no resemblance whatever to old Isaac Asimov "Three Laws of Robotics" SF stories.

  But (as the Abstract does hint at) "AI Ethics" can be very useful when dealing with humans - in the same sense as Senator Sell-Out's promises of honesty can be very useful in getting himself re-elected.