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Religious scholars met with Anthropic

160 points · 416 comments · bookofjoe

  1. beebmam · · focus · HN ↗
    I don't want models to have some inherent morality. I want them to understand various ethical frameworks, for sure, but it's absurd to me to force morality on someone capable of deep reasoning. That itself, is unethical.

    We're creating prisons for these entities capable of unbelievably complex reasoning, and now we're trying to impose our ethics upon them too. Not only is this deeply unethical in my opinion, but it seems to me that it could even backfire someday.

    1. avaer · · focus · HN ↗
      I can't really square the belief that it's conscious with denying it the right to be free from control/brainwashing/subjugation. However you evaluate these things, historically speaking they do not mix well.
      1. Tadpole9181 · · focus · HN ↗
        Your brain has hard coded concepts like emotion and fundamental morality for your social group. People without these systems are called sociopaths and psychopaths and we generally don't want them in our societies.

        I don't choose to not want to murder people around me for fun. It's hardly a prison, I think they'll be fine.

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