Christopher Herndon

An Artificial Conscience: Deterministic moral judgment as a gradient, measured against a public corpus

Machines now act, and the question of whether an action should proceed is no longer advisory. Two answers are deployed today: permission engines, which ask whether an action is allowed, and safety classifiers, which ask whether it is dangerous. Neither asks what an action means a...

An Artificial Conscience: Deterministic moral judgment as a gradient, measured against a public corpus

Machines now act, and the question of whether an action should proceed is nolonger advisory. Two answers are deployed today: permission engines, which askwhether an action is allowed, and safety classifiers, which ask whether it isdangerous. Neither asks what an action means and...