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Current cases of AI misalignment and their implications for future risks

Leonard Dung

Synthese 202 (5):1-23 (2023)

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Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review.Thilo Hagendorff - 2024 - Minds and Machines 34 (4):1-27.details The advent of generative artificial intelligence and the widespread adoption of it in society engendered intensive debates about its ethical implications and risks. These risks often differ from those associated with traditional discriminative machine learning. To synthesize the recent discourse and map its normative concepts, we conducted a scoping review on the ethics of generative artificial intelligence, including especially large language models and text-to-image models. Our analysis provides a taxonomy of 378 normative issues in 19 topic areas and ranks them (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Is superintelligence necessarily moral?Leonard Dung - forthcoming - Analysis.details Numerous authors have expressed concern that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential risk to humanity. These authors argue that we might build AI which is vastly intellectually superior to humans (a ‘superintelligence’), and which optimizes for goals that strike us as morally bad, or even irrational. Thus, this argument assumes that a superintelligence might have morally bad goals. However, according to some views, a superintelligence necessarily has morally adequate goals. This might be the case either because abilities for moral (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Understanding Artificial Agency.Leonard Dung - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly.details Which artificial intelligence (AI) systems are agents? To answer this question, I propose a multidimensional account of agency. According to this account, a system's agency profile is jointly determined by its level of goal-directedness and autonomy as well as is abilities for directly impacting the surrounding world, long-term planning and acting for reasons. Rooted in extant theories of agency, this account enables fine-grained, nuanced comparative characterizations of artificial agency. I show that this account has multiple important virtues and is more (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The argument for near-term human disempowerment through AI.Leonard Dung - 2024 - AI and Society:1-14.details Many researchers and intellectuals warn about extreme risks from artificial intelligence. However, these warnings typically came without systematic arguments in support. This paper provides an argument that AI will lead to the permanent disempowerment of humanity, e.g. human extinction, by 2100. It rests on four substantive premises which it motivates and defends: first, the speed of advances in AI capability, as well as the capability level current systems have already reached, suggest that it is practically possible to build AI systems (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Language Agents and Malevolent Design.Inchul Yum - 2024 - Philosophy and Technology 37 (104):1-19.details Language agents are AI systems capable of understanding and responding to natural language, potentially facilitating the process of encoding human goals into AI systems. However, this paper argues that if language agents can achieve easy alignment, they also increase the risk of malevolent agents building harmful AI systems aligned with destructive intentions. The paper contends that if training AI becomes sufficiently easy or is perceived as such, it enables malicious actors, including rogue states, terrorists, and criminal organizations, to create powerful (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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