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Strategic Polysemy in AI Discourse: A Philosophical Analysis of Language, Hype, and Power
Travis LaCroix, Fintan Mallory, Sasha Luccioni
This paper examines the strategic use of language in contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, focusing on the widespread adoption of metaphorical or colloquial terms li…
Relative Principals, Pluralistic Alignment, and the Structural Value Alignment Problem
Travis LaCroix
The value alignment problem for artificial intelligence (AI) is often framed as a purely technical or normative challenge, sometimes focused on hypothetical future systems. I argue…
Metaethical Perspectives on 'Benchmarking' AI Ethics
Travis LaCroix, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni
Benchmarks are seen as the cornerstone for measuring technical progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and have been developed for a variety of tasks ranging from questio…
Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
Travis LaCroix
Autonomous systems are being developed and deployed in situations that may require some degree of ethical decision-making ability. As a result, research in machine ethics has proli…
The Tragedy of the AI Commons
Travis LaCroix, Aydin Mohseni
Policy and guideline proposals for ethical artificial-intelligence research have proliferated in recent years. These are supposed to guide the socially-responsible development of A…
Learning from Learning Machines: Optimisation, Rules, and Social Norms
Travis LaCroix, Yoshua Bengio
There is an analogy between machine learning systems and economic entities in that they are both adaptive, and their behaviour is specified in a more-or-less explicit way. It appea…