Foundational Moral Values for AI Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17017v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:11:24 GMT
• Title: Foundational Moral Values for AI Alignment
• Authors: Betty Li Hou, Brian Patrick Green
• Abstract summary: We present five core, foundational values, drawn from moral philosophy and built on the requisites for human existence: survival, sustainable intergenerational existence, society, education, and truth. We show that these values not only provide a clearer direction for technical alignment work, but also serve as a framework to highlight threats and opportunities from AI systems to both obtain and sustain these values.
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• Abstract: Solving the AI alignment problem requires having clear, defensible values towards which AI systems can align. Currently, targets for alignment remain underspecified and do not seem to be built from a philosophically robust structure. We begin the discussion of this problem by presenting five core, foundational values, drawn from moral philosophy and built on the requisites for human existence: survival, sustainable intergenerational existence, society, education, and truth. We show that these values not only provide a clearer direction for technical alignment work, but also serve as a framework to highlight threats and opportunities from AI systems to both obtain and sustain these values.

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