Chowdhury: Anthropomorphizing AI absolves developers of moral responsibility for adverse outcomes
Dr. Ruman Chowdhury · AI + You: 5 ways to ethically build — and use — AI | Masters of Scale · Oct 31, 2023 · at 36:34
AI ethicist Dr. Ruman Chowdhury discusses the linguistic and psychological pitfalls of framing AI systems as having independent agency.
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“We will act as if the AI did a thing. So we'll say, AI will replace teachers. In doing so, we're absolving the developers, literally, of responsibility. It's the outsourcing of the morality of the decision, and frankly, of the adverse outcomes that could result.”
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