Templeton World Charity Foundation

The Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Diverse Intelligences Research Stream

Templeton World Charity Foundation

MINT led a USD234,000 grant to explore the theme of Moral Skill and Artificial Intelligence. Our postdoc, Nick Schuster, is working on this theme, and has a recent paper on the topic forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.

Here’s the executive summary of the project:

As humans, our skills define us. No skill is more human than the exercise of moral judgment. We are already using AI to automate morally-loaded decisions. In other domains of human activity, automating a task diminishes our skill at that task. Will ‘moral automation’ diminish our moral skill? If so, how can we mitigate that risk, and adapt AI to enable moral ‘ups killing’? Our project will use philosophy and social psychology to answer these questions.