Can AI Be Ethical

Or Moral

Janice Tovey
2 min readFeb 14, 2024

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Are you living in an ethical and moral community, town, city, country, world? Is your place of work, education, leisure, or worship ethical/moral?

We just have to open our eyes and ears to know that ethical and moral behaviour is in short supply.

Who gets to judge?

According to a peer-reviewed paper published in Science and Engineering Ethics, artificial agents are still far from being able to replace human judgment in complex, unpredictable, or unclear ethical scenarios. the Megatron Transformer, an AI system, said that it could never be ethical, owing to the fact that “it is a tool”23. Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics www.springer.com

Morality and ethics are fluid through time, space, and location. Behavior that may have had us thrown in jail fifty years ago is totally acceptable today if not expected. Ethical behaviour (?) and socially acceptable norms maybe very different in North America then other countries.

It is true that the fast growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has delivered many…

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Janice Tovey

My passion is writing. I also love reading, teaching, animals, nature, music, and humor. I am curious about everything and enjoy writing about all things.