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Human-like immoral decisions

Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review

Meek et al. (2016)

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AI systems that fail to perform reliably or effectively under varying conditions, exposing them to errors and failures that can have significant consequences, especially in critical applications or areas that require moral reasoning.

"If we design our machines to match human levels of ethical decision-making, such machines would then proceed to take some immoral actions (since we humans have had occasion to take immoral actions ourselves)."(p. 686)

Other risks from Meek et al. (2016) (17)