TY - GEN
T1 - Mental Contents in Designing AI Ethics
AU - Saariluoma, Pertti
AU - Myllylä, Mari
AU - Karvonen, Antero
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In future intelligent digital society, the way people organize their life around technologies shall change because intelligent machines can follow ethical rules in their behavior. In the human mind, ethics exist as contents of mental representations. Therefore, it is important to investigate the information contents of mental representations or mental contents. One can also call this approach content-based cognitive research. The analysis of mental contents makes it possible to mimic human ethical information processing and construct human digital twins for designing ethical machine information processes. In this paper, we analyze the relevant AI aspects of Hume’s guillotine. Hume asked critically whether facts can be used to derive values. His answer was negative. However, modern information technology can collect huge masses of facts, but can these facts be used in improving how we should live? Content-based analysis of human ethical information processing opens possibilities to bypass the logical dilemma of Hume’s guillotine.
AB - In future intelligent digital society, the way people organize their life around technologies shall change because intelligent machines can follow ethical rules in their behavior. In the human mind, ethics exist as contents of mental representations. Therefore, it is important to investigate the information contents of mental representations or mental contents. One can also call this approach content-based cognitive research. The analysis of mental contents makes it possible to mimic human ethical information processing and construct human digital twins for designing ethical machine information processes. In this paper, we analyze the relevant AI aspects of Hume’s guillotine. Hume asked critically whether facts can be used to derive values. His answer was negative. However, modern information technology can collect huge masses of facts, but can these facts be used in improving how we should live? Content-based analysis of human ethical information processing opens possibilities to bypass the logical dilemma of Hume’s guillotine.
KW - Ethical discourse
KW - Hume’s guillotine
KW - Mental contents
KW - Weak and strong ethical AI
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85133017563
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05434-1_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05434-1_32
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85133017563
SN - 978-3-03-105433-4
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 477
EP - 487
BT - Culture and Computing - 10th International Conference, C and C 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Rauterberg, Matthias
PB - Springer
T2 - 10th International Conference on Culture and Computing, C and C 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022
Y2 - 26 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
ER -