#ethics

Virtue ethics in everyday interface design

How wording, hierarchy, and moments of friction can support considered action. Aristotle statue by Jerry Anderson at Southern Utah University’s Centurium, Cedar City, Utah. Image source: Southern Utah University . One thing that troubles me about designers is how readily some treat public expressions of moral conviction as evidence of sound ethical judgment. They announce their commitments to causes they regard as worthy, speak confidently about responsible practice, yet fail to examine their own biases or the ethical tensions within their decisions. Virtue signaling is not a substitute for re

UX Collective · EN

A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI

A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI

The Gradient · EN

We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so far been

The Gradient · EN

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices [1] : networks of actions, action-dispositions, action-evaluation criteria,

The Gradient · EN