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Okay, Chelsea, for the mini this week, I thought you would follow up on the little bit that

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we've been talking about AI. Now, where did we leave off with our last conversation with

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AI? It was that Seance AI, right?

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Yes, yes, with the contacting your loved ones.

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And then prior to that one, we had talked about an AI which was only a conversation where

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if they let an AI be in charge of a video game fighter jet, it would kill its handler.

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Yeah, what a good memory you have.

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And then, yeah, it turns out that that was literally just a conversation to people.

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Yes, but what might happen?

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This is kind of a follow up from that portion, not the Seance one, although who knows, maybe

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at some point in the future, they'll be connected. It'll actually be the same AI bought.

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Okay.

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This is in the Washington Post posted on July 22nd, 2023 by Shira Aviona.

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The title of this article is Judeo-Christian roots will ensure US military AI is used ethically,

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General says.

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Oh, no, we all know that's a lie.

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No one's ever done anything bad under the name of Judeo-Christian values.

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A three star Air Force general said the US military's approach to artificial intelligence

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is more ethical than adversaries because it is a Judeo-Christian society in quotations.

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An assessment that drew scrutiny from experts who say people from a wide range of religious

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and ethical traditions can work to resolve the dilemmas AI poses.

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Lieutenant General Richard G. Moore Jr.

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Sorry, that sounds wrong.

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Lieutenant General Richard G.

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As in the middle initial G.

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Moore Jr.

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Not G. Moore.

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That's my judgment.

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Made the comment at a Hudson Institute event Thursday while answering a question about

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how the Pentagon views autonomous warfare.

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The Department of Defense has been discussing AI ethics at its highest level, said Moore,

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who is in the Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs.

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Who is the Air Force's Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs?

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Quote, regardless of what your beliefs are, our society is a Judeo-Christian society and

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we have a moral compass.

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Not everybody does.

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And there are those that are willing to go for the ends, regardless of what means have

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to be employed.

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End quote.

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And I think you can kind of guess what they're getting at here.

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It will be revealed at the end of the article.

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The future of AI in war depends on, quote, who plays by the rules of warfare and who

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does not.

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There are societies that have a very different foundation than ours, end quote.

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He said without naming specific countries.

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The Department of Defense has a religious liberty policy recognizing that service members

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have, quote, a right to observe the tenets of their religion or to observe no religion

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at all, end quote.

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The policy broadly allows personnel to express their sincerely held beliefs so long as those

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actions do not have, quote, an adverse impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, good

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order and discipline or health and safety, end quote.

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Moore wrote in an email statement to The Washington Post that while AI ethics may not

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be the United States' sole province, its adversaries are unlikely to act on the same

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values.

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Quote, the foundation of my comments was to explain that the Air Force is not going to

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allow AI to take actions nor are we going to take actions on information provided by

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AI unless we can ensure that the information is in accordance with our values.

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While this may not be unique to our society, it is not anticipated to be the position of

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any potential adversary, end quote.

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Moore's comments come as US government officials say they're working on guidelines for the

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use of AI in warfare.

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The State Department issued a declaration on, quote, the responsible military use of

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artificial intelligence and autonomy, end quote, in February.

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The Defense Department adopted standards for the ethical use of AI in 2020.

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The ethical issues AI raises, including in war, are common to multiple religious and

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philosophical traditions.

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Who would have thought?

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said Alex John London, a professor of ethics and computational technologies at Carnegie

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Mellon University, quote, there's a lot of work in the ethics space that's not tied

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to any religious perspective that focuses on the importance of valuing human welfare,

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human autonomy, having social systems that are just and fair.

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Concerns reflected in AI ethics are broader than any single tradition, end quote.

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Moore, the general from before, not G. Moore, didn't say whom he was referring to when

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speaking about US adversaries, but much of the US industry has focused on, can you guess

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it, Chelsea?

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It's China, China's burgeoning AI sector.

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Wasn't going to say China.

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Technology experts told the House Armed Services Subcommittee this month that the United States

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risks falling behind China if it doesn't invest more quickly in military AI.

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The Chinese military approach to ethics is different in its roots than that of the United

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States, but still mindful of ethical dilemmas, said Mark Metcalf, a lecturer at the University

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of Virginia and retired US Naval officer.

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Comparing the United States and China's ethics policies is like apples and oranges,

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because their history differs, Metcalf added.

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Ethics texts in the United States draw from thinkers like Augustine Metcalf said calling

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it quote, a very theistic point of view, end quote.

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Chinese officials reference Marxism and Leninism and the Communist Party's guide, what the

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ethics is, end quote he added.

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That doesn't mean that China ignores ethical dilemmas when thinking about military AI,

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though.

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China's People's Liberation Army wants to use the technology without undercutting

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companies party control.

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Metcalf wrote in a paper analyzing publicly available statements on China's approach

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to military use of AI.

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Political goals appear to guide its policies, he said.

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quote, once you turn over control of a weapon system to an algorithm, worst case, then the

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party loses control, end quote.

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Over it Metcalf said, don't hmm, that was a really crappy way of quoting that.

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And that appears to be the end of the article.

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What do you think Chelsea?

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There's a few things in there that I want.

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I've never thought about, we've talked about military and AI, it never even crossed my

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eye to think about other countries military and AI.

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So that's refreshingly disturbing to think about, which then leads me to the next thought

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of we're moving so super fast with AI right now.

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Are we not?

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And the implications then going into military and stuff like that is crazy to think about

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what they're going to be doing with that AI.

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The one thing I got like after reading this article is it's pretty racist.

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These barbarous creatures just don't have the understanding because you know, they haven't

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accepted Christ into their life because you know, Christ wrote extensively and talked

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about the ethics of AI technology.

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Well, exactly.

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That was his preaching.

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Yeah, just like he taught us that the atom bomb should only be dropped twice just to

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show your force.

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Exactly.

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I mean, it's shocking that it was coming from such a religious point of view because

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only people in that religion can have ethic.

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Nobody else not following religion can have ethics.

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And they can never do anything wrong either.

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Exactly.

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Oh man, like it's just incredibly, I guess technically racist isn't the right word because

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they're talking about everything outside of Judeo-Christian values, but ethnocentrists

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for sure.

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Oh yeah.

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You can believe that you're just inherently better because of the systems you have in

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place.

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Well, isn't that part of Jesus' teachings as well?

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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So it made me think about lots of things in that article and that was the major one.

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I was getting up to that point starting with that.

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I forgot about China having AI.

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Yeah, yeah, they got it.

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But you know, it's Chinese, so it's just barbaric.

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Yeah, exactly.

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If you don't see anything else to add.

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I don't think so.

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I'm just glad we have warfare Jesus on our side, although I guess we'll see what happens.

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Most of the atrocities that have occurred, like I'm not saying China's perfect.

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In fact, they are involved in many atrocities that are very horrible, but Judeo-Christian

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values have not stopped the West from also committing many atrocities.

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Oh yes.

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Just as bad, if not worse in a lot of the cases.

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Not only that, but religion itself.

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So there's that.

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Yeah.

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But anyhow, I guess we're going to keep our eye on AI.

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If you will, the I in AI stands for I in this case.

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And that's a terrible joke that can leave you wincing over the next couple of days while

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you wait for the next episode, okay?

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Thank you all for listening.

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We'll see you on Friday.

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That was perfection.