What morality should we teach artificial intelligence? - with Stephen Driscoll

06/04/24 • 26 min

A new massive ethical question has risen up with the advent of artificial intelligence.
How will people decide what kind of morality to give to their artificial intelligence creations?
There will need to be a morality. But what should it be?
The market is already making different choices.
Elon Musk has said he wants the AI behind X (formerly Twitter) to be morally flexible. He wants his AI to appeal to all people: left and right, authoritarian and democratic, kind and brutal.
Stephen Driscoll is the author of ‘Made in our Image - God, artificial intelligence and you’.
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The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele - What morality should we teach artificial intelligence? - with Stephen Driscoll

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It is the pastor's heart and Dominic Steele , and how to teach artificial intelligence about morality with Stephen Driscoll . We are continuing our discussion with Stephen Driscoll today about artificial intelligence . He is the author of this highly significant new book . Made in our image , God , Artificial Intelligence and you . We are now able to create computers that are smarter tha