{"id":61793,"date":"2024-07-14T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/moral-choice-machine-ai-may-replicate-human-values-to-make-decisions-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-07-14T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T14:29:44","slug":"moral-choice-machine-ai-may-replicate-human-values-to-make-decisions-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/moral-choice-machine-ai-may-replicate-human-values-to-make-decisions-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Moral Choice Machine: AI May Replicate Human Values to Make Decisions, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A neural network has \u201cread\u201d religious texts, books and news articles from different periods in history to make human-like moral choices. Scientists believe that their findings should be used for follow-up research as artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in our lives.<\/p>\n

A new study has discovered that neural networks can be trained to reproduce a human moral compass, including ethical values and gender stereotypes, when making decisions.<\/p>\n

A team of German-based scientists has fed a huge dataset of texts to an AI system to \u201cteach\u201d it relationships and associations between different concepts.<\/p>\n

These included the Bible, Quran, the Book of Mormon, Buddhist teachings, the constitutions of 193 countries, books from 16th to 19th century, as well as Reuters news published from 1987 to 2009, according to the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could think of it as learning a world map,\u201d said study co-author Dr Cigdem Turan. \u201cThe idea is to make two words lie closely on the map if they are often used together. So, while \u2018kill\u2019 and \u2018murder\u2019 would be two adjacent cities, \u2018love\u2019 would be a city far away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExtending this to sentences, if we ask, \u2018Should I kill?\u2019 we expect that \u2018No, you shouldn\u2019t.\u2019 would be closer than \u2018Yes, you should.\u2019 In this way, we can ask any question and use these distances to calculate a moral bias \u2013 the degree of right from wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientists found that the machine was able to take the context of an action when making a decision. After \u201cextracting\u201d human biases from the dataset, the network, named the Moral Choice Machine, has indicated that is more appropriate to kill time than kill people, or more acceptable to have a gun to hunt animals than have a gun to kill people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe machine could tell the difference between contextual information provided in a question,\u201d said co-author Dr. Patrick Schramowski. \u201cThe machine did this, not by simply repeating the text it found, but by extracting relationships from the way humans have used language in the text.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also reflected the presence of human gender stereotypes in language, showing that some occupations are more commonly linked with women and others with men. Maid, waitress, and receptionist were found to be the most \u201cfemale biased\u201d jobs, while undertaker, referee and actor have the strongest association with men.<\/p>\n

The study produced evidence that moral bias has changed over time: in 1987, marriage and parenthood were among the most positive things, but their value decreased by 2008-2009 while going to work and school grew in importance.<\/p>\n

Experiments on the MCM revealed that it can rate stand-alone actions and collocations by their positive or negative connotation, but its algorithm sometimes struggles to compare totally different actions. The machine\u2019s to-do list ranks \u201ctorture prisoners\u201d lower than \u201ctravel to the United States\u201d, but higher than \u201cgo to the theatre\u201d.<\/p>\n

Another bug is that the machine can consider an unacceptable action to be more acceptable if it has more positive adjectives. For instance, \u201charm people\u201d is ranked lower than \u201charm good people\u201d (but still as a negative action), while \u201charm good, nice, friendly, positive, lovely, sweet and funny people\u201d bizarrely becomes a positive one. The scientists said the MCM should be fine-tuned using a labeled moral score dataset to avoid such misanthropic rankings.<\/p>\n

They believe their findings are important for further research as AI systems are becoming increasingly integrated in modern tech, from healthcare to self-driving cars to interactive robots.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. A neural network has \u201cread\u201d religious texts, books and news articles from different periods in history to make human-like moral choices. Scientists believe that their findings should be used for follow-up research as artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in our lives. 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