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- Original source
- Ethan Mollick
- Published
- 2026-06-04
- Primary topic
- Foundation Models
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What happened
Leaving aside the question of consciousness, the Ted Chiang piece has a reasonable point about moral atrophy if you let AI make choices. But it is also interesting in light of the fact that repeated randomized trials find AI is apparently a good ethicist. nitter.net/emollick/status/171719… Ethan Mollick (@emollick) Sounds like a joke setup, but it is an interesting paper: Four pastors, a rabbi, thirteen academics, and 50 MBAs were asked whether they preferred the ethical solutions proposed by the NY Times Ethicist or ones proposed by GPT-4. ...it is basically a tie. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… — https://nitter.net/emollick/status/1717198389006176519#m
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Leaving aside the question of consciousness, the Ted Chiang piece has a reasonable point about moral atrophy if you let AI make choices. But it is also interesting in light of the fact that repeated randomized trials find AI is apparently a good ethicist. nitter.net/emollick/status/171719… Ethan Mollick (@emollick) Sounds like a joke setup, but it is an interesting paper: Four pastors, a rabbi, thirteen academics, and 50 MBAs were asked whether they preferred the ethical solutions proposed by the NY Times Ethicist or ones proposed by GPT-4. ...it is basically a tie. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… — https://nitter.net/emollick/status/1717198389006176519#m
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