AI-Powered ethics & wisdom
There is much talk about unethical AI. But how does AI influence human ethical behavior? Can AI algorithms tempt us to behave more unethically, for example by blaming machines for our mistakes? On the flip side, can AI systems help us act more ethically by eliminating our human biases? This project explores mechanisms through which AI could make us more or less moral. By exploring these possibilities, we aim to build AI systems that enhance human ethics.
Scientific writings
Johnson, S. G., Karimi, A. H., Bengio, Y., Chater, N., Gerstenberg, T., Larson, K., ... & Grossmann, I. (2024). Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.02478.
[Media: Forbes]Bonnefon, J. F., Rahwan, I., & Shariff, A. (2024). The moral psychology of Artificial Intelligence. Annual Review of Psychology, 75(1), 653-675.
Awad, E., Levine, S., Loreggia, A., Mattei, N., Rahwan, I., Rossi, F., Talamadupula, K., Tenenbaum, J., Kleiman-Weiner, M. (2024). When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 38(2), 35.
[Media: Big Think, preprint]N. Köbis, C. Starke, I. Rahwan (2022). The promise and perils of using artificial intelligence to fight corruption. Nature Machine Intelligence.
[Free read-only version]Köbis, N., Bonnefon, J. F., & Rahwan, I. (2021). Bad machines corrupt good morals. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(6), 679-685.
[View-only open access version] [Media: LA Times op-ed, The Economist (PDF)]