The Incompleteness of Ethics
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The article explores the implications of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems on AI morality, sparking a discussion on the distinction between ethics and morality, and the limitations of current AI systems.
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The other thing it doesn't connect is how we currently use AI. What we use are statistical models not axiomatic proofs. We can extract axiomatic proofs from them, but that's an extra unexplained step which is needed to make the rest of the article relevant.
The conclusion is also the same as before we had AI, we'll still have to make moral judgements where ethical evaluations are inconclusive or unreliable. Pretty much the same as any safe use of AI not specific to this area.
Ironically it could have been been beneficial to use an AI to proof the article for strength of its argument and logical gaps.