By Peter Singer. Karl Marx wrote, with Hegel in mind: “if a philosopher really has compromised, it is the job of his followers to use the inner core of his thought to illuminate his own superficial expressions of it.” That expresses well the attitude of the Young Hegelians, of whom Marx was one, and who, […]
Category: LLMs
Is that what I think like?
By Sankalpa Ghose. What does it mean for a philosopher, or really anyone, to be represented by an artificial intelligence? In creating PSai (available now at www.petersinger.ai), this naturally arises as a curiosity and a consideration. As related in “A Representative Interview with Peter Singer AI” – just published in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics […]
Do philosophers stand in the way of their own philosophy?
By Matti Häyry. I recently interviewed Peter Singer AI – that is to say, philosopher Peter Singer’s digital representation petersinger.ai, created by Sankalpa Ghose and available online. After the interview with the bot, I asked Peter Singer himself what he thought about the answers. His response revealed an interesting tension. For me, the experience was […]
To succeed as an innovation hub, we need ground rules for ethical use of AI tools
By Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Brian D Earp and Julian Savulescu. Republished with permission from the Straits Times After a severe bout of Covid-19, a colleague, Sumeeta, found herself facing an unexpected challenge. Despite her intact verbal intelligence and reasoning skills, she suddenly struggled with the mechanics of writing. Constructing grammatical sentences and coherent paragraphs now […]
Can artificial intelligence serve as an ethical decision-maker within committees?
By Kannan Sridharan & Gowri Sivaramakrishnan. Artificial intelligence is widely being used in recent years in the health care industry. These systems learn to perform tasks that are commonly associated with human cognitive functions such as identifying patterns. Typically, these systems process massive amounts of data and look for patterns to model in their own […]
Curb your enthusiasm: how to use large language models in medical ethics?
By Andrea Ferrario and Nikola Biller-Andorno. A technology enthusiast (TE) and a medical ethicist (ME) walk into a bar. Over a few rounds of drinks, their discussion shifts to the topic of large language models (LLMs) and their use in medical ethics. TE: Have you seen the latest? Technology using LLM, like OpenAI’s GPT-4, is […]