"We are now in the position, in some countries and sectors, especially education, in getting bogged down in a swamp of amateur moralising on AI, suppressing the benefits." In addition to being a Hume aficionado, I am largely in agreement with this sentiment from Donald Clark: "In truth, most of what passes for Ethics in AI these days is lazy 'moralizing', moral high horses ridden by people with absolute certainty about their own values and rules, as if they were God-given. More than this they want to impose those rules on others. They call themselves 'ethicists' but it is thinly disguised activism, as there is no real attempt to balance the debate out with the considerable benefits." That's why I began my Ethics course with a long section on the uses of AI, and took a deep look at a variety of ethical perspectives.
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