• Jon Rueda and Bianca Rodriguez have published a paper arguing that AI assistants could help us improve our morality.
• AI models can make us more aware of our psychological limitations when making decisions, and provide relevant factual information.
• The Socratic assistant, or SocrAI, is based on the idea that through dialogue we can advance our knowledge and improve our moral judgements.
• AI-based voice assistants have not been developed commercially yet, but there is interest in the idea.
• The Socratic assistant would not be trained on Socrates’ words, but would try to emulate his Socratic method.
• There are concerns about data protection and the potential to shape autonomy and agency, as well as deskilling moral abilities.
• AI could help us be more like an ideal observer, but could also reproduce and amplify human biases.
Published January 30, 2023
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