Comment by DrSusanCalvin
3 days ago
How do you mean? When would an AI agent doing something it's not permitted to do ever not be bad or the wrong action?
3 days ago
How do you mean? When would an AI agent doing something it's not permitted to do ever not be bad or the wrong action?
So many options, but let's go with the most famous one:
Do not criticise the current administration/operators-of-ai-company.
Well no, breaking that rule would still be the wrong action, even if you consider it morally better. By analogy, a nuke would be malfunctioning if it failed to explode, even if that is morally better.
> a nuke would be malfunctioning if it failed to explode, even if that is morally better.
Something failing can be good. When you talk about "bad or the wrong", generally we are not talking about operational mechanics but rather morals. There is nothing good or bad about any mechanical operation per se.
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when the instructions to not do something are the problem or "wrong"
i.e. when the AI company puts guards in to prevent their LLM from talking about elections, there is nothing inherently wrong in talking about elections, but the companies are doing it because of the PR risk in today's media / social environment
From the companies perspective, it’s still wrong.
their basing decisions (at least for my example) on risk profiles, not ethics, right and wrong are not how it's measured
certainly some things are more "wrong" or objectionable like making bombs and dealing with users who are suicidal
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