Angus Robson 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I am a university lecturer with a specialism in virtue ethics in business organisations.

[Angus Robson 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @AngusRobson5]

@eripsa (Enjoying being in conversation with Eripsa again. Always thought provoking.)

[Angus Robson 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @AngusRobson5]

@eripsa One possibility is to say virtues applicable to AI are ‘use’ virtues. If so, the standards applicable – appropriateness – may be determined by the original designers or users of the technology. But this would deny AIs the status of autonomous moral agents (moral beings). ends

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@NoelSharkey Country Joe and The Fish! Brilliant! It's been a long time.

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@eripsa @Angry_Cassie For me, it's about emotions. Virtues regulate emotions. No emotion, no virtue. This is common to Confucian and Aristotelian virtues. So, if an emotional being (and a few other things), then, yes AI can have virtues / vices.
https://t.co/p4qgRLKbUa

[Martin Swinbank @MartinSwinbank]

Brilliant, filled this in and posted to my 50 nearest neighbours today. If we can all look after each other, then we will get through #coronavirus so much better. We need to build a network of those who can help, to strengthen our communities. #viralkindness #Alnwick

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@David_Gunkel @mchardcastle I've been away. Missed all this. Thanks.
🙂
At the start of the thread, David should really have been more precise about what kind of agency he meant. It's such a variable term.
If you mean moral agency, say that, or whichever you do mean.

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@PabloRedux @PKathrani @David_Gunkel @SJThompsonPhD @eripsa @kaznatcheev @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @theblub I never said there were only two sides!

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@David_Gunkel @PabloRedux @SJThompsonPhD @eripsa @kaznatcheev @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @PKathrani @theblub Quilting. Now that's a really nice metaphor right there.

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@eripsa @PabloRedux @kaznatcheev @David_Gunkel @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @PKathrani @theblub Agreed, to an extent. So there is a problem of translation from technical to common language. Both sides need to take care.

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@PabloRedux @David_Gunkel @eripsa @kaznatcheev @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @PKathrani @theblub It strengthens the illusion of intelligence. Intelligent beings can teach themselves a skill, and usually this implies a purposeful goal and a desire to learn. So, applied to a robot, smoke and mirrors, really.

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@David_Gunkel @PabloRedux @eripsa @kaznatcheev @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @PKathrani @theblub Sorry, posted parallel.

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@David_Gunkel @eripsa @PabloRedux @kaznatcheev @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @PKathrani @theblub Not entirely. New words like laser, radar and robot don't depend on this process. But, sure, much of our language is metaphorical, and will continue to be. What matters is how we manage the risk. So much usage is irresponsible, e.g. 'Artificial Intelligence' applied to a system.

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@eripsa @PabloRedux @kaznatcheev @David_Gunkel @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @PKathrani If there's a problem, for me, it's more about the word 'learning'. As usual, it's a metaphor borrowed from human experience. So it runs the risk of metaphor reversal fallacy as mentioned by @theblub .

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@David_Gunkel @eripsa @PabloRedux @kaznatcheev @sd_marlow @EmergTechEthics @PKathrani Or Ursula Le Guin.

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@evansd66 Ah. Here we are...
https://t.co/Ak2XL3EzcX

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@mireillemoret Brilliant. Thanks for the reference. I've found it through Bepress. 👍

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Dear Twitter people, I have a question.
Does the important distinction between machine and human learning which is stated in @mireillemoret 's article (below) still hold good?
https://t.co/8oyIF4K1sa

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