As AI and brain-computer technologies advance, this paper for ISCAST’s journal CPOSAT examines how Christian virtue ethics can guide their ethical use.
Alexander Rusnak and Zachary Seals suggest a values-based way to train AI, and consider how these tools might impact human character and society.
In this paper, we examine one particular virtue ethic tradition within Protestant Christian theology. Then, we contrast the progression of virtue ethics scholarship recently with the most popular ethical frameworks assumed by many top AI researchers and research groups, and detail the potential scope of impact for virtuous or vicious AI. Lastly, we consider the possible dramatic expansion of human reliance on and joining with AI—symbiosis—through the use of high throughput brain-computer interfaces.
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