ETHICS

Neuropsychological Hazards: Information-Based Harm and AI Safety

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03 March 2024 0h50

And then there is the science fiction favorite – the Neuropsychological Hazard, where information will actually cause physical harm. Triggering epileptics is one real example, mentioning MacBeth at a theater a fictional one. A list of more Basilisks: https://
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Information Hazards: Psychological Risks in Social Media

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03 March 2024 0h49

Psychological reaction hazard: "Information can reduce well-being by causing sadness, disappointment, or some other psychological effect in the receiver." We know this actually happens in social media from experiments 6/

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Celebrating rebels and troublemakers in innovation culture

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03 March 2024 0h45

In my culture we toast the rebels, the outcasts and troublemakers

Information Truth Destabilizes Economic and Social System Norms

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03 March 2024 0h40

Norm hazards: we share common sets of beliefs about how we, as a society or economy, should operate. If information breaks our belief in these norms, even if the information is true, it can create instability in the overall system. 4/

Ideological hazards in belief systems and online learning

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03 March 2024 0h40

Ideological hazards: Most people have only a little knowledge about what their ideological belief (whether religious or political) really encompasses. On the web, you can learn that your chosen belief system also includes hazardous elements that you feel you need to adopt. 2/

Information Hazards: Conspiracy Theories Mental State Vulnerability

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03 March 2024 0h40

Evocation hazards: there may be particular information that, when people encounter it, triggers them. This is not just in the common sense of triggering past trauma, but that some conspiracy theories or memes might be unusually tempting to people in particular mental states. 3/

Information Hazards: How Knowledge Can Cause Harm

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03 March 2024 0h40

How can knowing something hurt you? Information can sometimes cause harm (think of the annoyance of seeing spoilers as a tiny example). This paper on information hazards was prescient about many of the issues we face today. So, a on some of the hazards of knowledge… 1/

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Environmental Impact Assessments Required Before AI Deployment

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03 March 2024 0h27

Yes. Can we require environmental impact assessments before any AI design can go public? Where companies demonstrate long term protection of water etc? Where people say “companies won’t like that” or “policy makers are too slow..” Those answers don’t work anymore.