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A graduate student notes on ethics coursework this term

Neutral Posted by Arjun Pillai Reading time ~ 2 min

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I am finishing a master's program in applied ethics in Mumbai and much of my coursework this year has touched on AI. I am writing without a strong personal stance because I genuinely do not have one. I find the arguments on multiple sides persuasive in different moods. What I have learned is that the public debate often collapses distinctions that matter. There is a difference between foundation model training and downstream product deployment. There is a difference between an autonomous system and a decision-support system. There is a difference between a consumer choosing to use a tool and a citizen subjected to one. A lot of the heat in the public conversation comes from conflating these. I would encourage resources like this one to keep drawing the distinctions, because people without technical or philosophical training deserve better than a shouting match. I would also encourage my peers in the academic world to spend more time in public-facing writing. We are taught to write for each other, and then we complain that the public discussion is shallow. Some of that is on us. I will try to follow my own advice. I do not know what I think about every case, but I can at least try to describe the cases clearly.
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