BAIR Faculty and co-founder of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, Stuart Russell, is recognized as one of this year's #TIME100AI.
ETHICS
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Ideology as Cognitive Distortion: Breaking Memetic Black Holes
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Ideology is a normative distortion of the thought space, warping it so its inhabitants fall into memetic a black hole and can no longer entertain ideas outside of the event horizon
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Classical Philosophy Foundations for AI Ethics
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Aristoteles (Nicomachian Ethics), Plato (Republic, Hume (Treatise on Human Nature), James (Principles of Psychology), Gadamer (Truth and Method), Kant (Critiques), Seneca (Letters to Lucillius, De Ira), Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)
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Practical Rationality: Beyond Suboptimal AI Integration
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it is irrational to submit to a tool with suboptimal outcomes; the proper integration of perception, intuition, feeling and reasoning is part of practical rationality
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Classical Hermeneutics: Foundation for Understanding Modern AI
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This used to be the domain of hermeneutics and the reason for teaching classical thought.
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Analyzing Cognitive Bias: Beyond Ideological Perception
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Feelings and perception don't have to be ideologically biased, you can analyze and correct them and the underlying generators
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Social Media and Moral Decline in Modern Society
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A combination of social media and a Godless society so detached from any morality
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Building and Maintaining Tech Infrastructure Through Perseverance
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the world is a patchwork of perseverance > nothing is permanent
> nothing appears magically every bench, every beam, every bridge > someone made it
> and someone fought to keep it
> and someone continues to take care of it so, do whatever you need to do to persevere -
Subsymbolic cognition and justified reasoning in human intelligence
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When we don’t have decisive rational arguments, we resort to the subsymbolic faculties of our mind. Their output manifests as imaginations and feelings. As we grow up, we learn to analyze the structure and justification of our feelings, especially the feeling of justification.
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Academic Integrity and Ideological Suppression in Scientific Discourse
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My criticism is not directed to the leftist political camp. The far right has an infamous track record in maintaining scientific integrity. The problem is an academic culture that allows ideologues to suppress rational arguments, prevent debate and understanding.