AI Outscored Humans in a Blinded Moral Turing Test - Should We Be Worried? Dr Eyal Aharoni Explains

In a blinded Moral Turing Test, people rated GPT-4’s moral answers higher than humans’ across most measures - yet they could still tell it was AI. Are we priming the public to over-trust machine morality? Interview with Dr Eyal Aharoni, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience Georgia State University Attributions toward artificial agents in a modified Moral Turing Test Nature Article : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58087-7 0:00 Intro 0:42 What motivated the project? 6:23 What does the Moral Turing Test measure? 9:37 The importance of 'care' in ethical reasoning 12:11 Surprising results 13:36 What would you change about the MTT study? 18:06 AI moral responses rated higher than human responses 20:19 Beliefs & attitudes about AI sharing moral information 23:20 AI maximization and overconfidence 25:35 Dealing with Sycophancy in AI 27:35 The Comparative Moral Turing Test on large sample of philosophers 29:47 What do the findings from these studies imply for public trust in AI moral reasoning? 34:50 Enfeeblement 38:13 Counteracting enfeeblement 46:45 Criteria for moral reasoning in AI 50:37 Does moral understanding require phenomenology? 53:18 Indirect Normativity 56:22 Moral realism 1:01:35 Dealing with un-guardrailed AI .. offence/defence tradeoff 1:04:37 Moral Realism more popular amongst philosophers than anti-realism 1:06:59 Should AI be legally responsible? 1:12:34 AI: Moral actor / moral patient 1:16:05 Transparency and explainability around moral decision making in AI 1:18:01 Minds obey physical laws, radical interpretability & the explanatory gap 1:21:45 Existential security 1:22:58 Morality faking - alignment faking - how to counter? 1:25:28 AI drivers licence 1:26:36 Trade-off between security & privacy 1:29:34 Dual use, omni use technology 1:31:09 AI optimising value proxies 1:34:12 International Math Olympiad gold medal level status achieved by Google Gemini 1:37:50 An International Moral Olympiad / Ethics Bowl 1:39:22 AI control vs motivation, Kantian deontology vs utilitarianism 1:41:05 Pluralism 1:43:23 Lessons learned from the MTT study #TuringTest #AI #MoralTuringTest Many thanks for tuning in! Please support SciFuture by subscribing and sharing! Buy me a coffee? https://buymeacoffee.com/tech101z Have any ideas about people to interview? Want to be notified about future events? Any comments about the STF series? Please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mr9PIfq2ZYlQsXRIn5BcLH2onbiSI7g79mOH_AFCdIk/ Kind regards, Adam Ford - Science, Technology & the Future - #SciFuture - http://scifuture.org