What's AI to Do in a World Where Ethics Are Subjective? - SuperPosition

There is a solution that can potentially bypass the subjective nature of ethics and that is to point AI towards an action based on prioritizing international human rights. Philip Alston, an international legal scholar at NYU's School of Law, says, "[Human rights are] in the constitution...They're in the bill of rights; they've been interpreted by courts." Therefore an AI's action should never remove basic human rights. This means that in order for AI to develop a universal code, it should not be based on ethics but to work with civil rights groups and researchers to study the impact of human rights throughout the life cycle of the AI.