AI Virtues As Missing Bedrock Ingredient For Responsible AI Says AI Ethics And AI Law

Abstraction: Virtue ethics framework proposed as foundation for AI ethics principles

Key points:

• Researcher Thilo Hagendorff (Philosophy & Technology, 2022) proposes four basic AI Virtues derived by clustering existing AI ethics principles: Justice, Honesty, Responsibility, and Care
• Two second-order AI Virtues are also proposed: Prudence (counteracting individual psychological biases) and Fortitude (counteracting situational/organizational forces)
• AI Virtue of Justice maps to algorithmic fairness, non-discrimination, bias mitigation; Honesty maps to transparency, explainability, interpretability; Responsibility to accountability and accuracy; Care to non-maleficence, privacy, safety, and beneficence
• Argument is that virtues are the bedrock soil from which ethical rules (the flowers) naturally grow — without getting virtues right first, endless rule-making fails
• Criticism: risk of distraction from existing AI ethics work; agent-centric virtues vs. act-centric principles tension; some resist adding more frameworks to an already crowded space

Connections: AI Ethics · Responsible AI · AI Safety

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2022/11/15/ai-virtues-as-missing-bedrock-ingredient-for-responsible-ai-says-ai-ethics-and-ai-law/?sh=13d7baf810a8