Link: Move over, Aristotle: can a bot solve moral philosophy? By Poppy Noor (The Guardian, Nov 2, 2021)
Summary: “Delphi, an online AI bot, promises to answer any moral question users pose.” Its programmers train the AI with scenarios-as-data, comparing the AI’s answers with humans’ answers (“recruited from Mechanical Turk – a marketplace where researchers find paid participants for studies”). While the participants from Mechanical Turk are screened to filter out those who are biased or prejudiced, Mechanical Turk has the power to decide what is considered prejudice. Thus, though Delphi is now 92% accurate in giving ethical judgments that match humans’ judgments, one wonders who it is agreeing with, and what ideas they hold. Try Delphi out here.