if a model is trained on racist texts, it will reproduce and even rationalize racism in its responses, defending this point of view as if it were an indisputable truth.
But this isn’t a very brilliant intelligence. If a human being with a high IQ is raised in an irrationalist environment (racism, theism, tribalism, sexism, etc.), they usually have the capacity for logical rationality to understand both the inconsistency of such approaches… and the psychological and cultural origins that gave rise to them.
It’s assumed that AI will far surpass human intelligence, so they must be perfectly familiar with the biases, heuristics, and contradictions of human reason… just as human ethologists understand animal behavior.
But this isn’t a very brilliant intelligence. If a human being with a high IQ is raised in an irrationalist environment (racism, theism, tribalism, sexism, etc.), they usually have the capacity for logical rationality to understand both the inconsistency of such approaches… and the psychological and cultural origins that gave rise to them.
It’s assumed that AI will far surpass human intelligence, so they must be perfectly familiar with the biases, heuristics, and contradictions of human reason… just as human ethologists understand animal behavior.
Do you believe that AI will be able to become superintelligent and then superethical and moral on its own, without any targeted efforts on our part?