4 papers
Position: We Need Practical AI Alignment Methods to Mirror Human Reasoning
Vijay Keswani, Breanna K. Nguyen, Cyrus Cousins +3
AI systems are increasingly employed as decision aids, decision delegates, or autonomous decision-makers. This position paper argues that in many settings, particularly high-stakes…
Aïra: Rethinking AI Research Assistants for Interdisciplinary Science
Diya Mirji, Tiffany Degbotse, Sharmil Nanjappa +9
Scientific discovery increasingly depends on interdisciplinary teams whose members contribute distinct expertise, conceptual frameworks, vocabularies, assumptions, and standards of…
Moral Change or Noise? On Problems of Aligning AI With Temporally Unstable Human Feedback
Vijay Keswani, Cyrus Cousins, Breanna Nguyen +4
Alignment methods in moral domains seek to elicit moral preferences of human stakeholders and incorporate them into AI. This presupposes moral preferences as static targets, but su…
Can AI Model the Complexities of Human Moral Decision-Making? A Qualitative Study of Kidney Allocation Decisions
Vijay Keswani, Vincent Conitzer, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong +3
A growing body of work in Ethical AI attempts to capture human moral judgments through simple computational models. The key question we address in this work is whether such simple…