Templeton World Charity Foundation

The Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Diverse Intelligences Research Stream

Templeton World Charity Foundation

We have been awarded a USD234,000 grant to explore the theme of Moral Skill and Artificial Intelligence. This brings us into the fold of a spectacular cohort of researchers working at the world’s leading institutions, on the theme of ‘Diverse Intelligences’. Our postdoc, Nick Schuster, is expected to start in the new year (COVID allowing).

Here’s the executive summary of the project:

As humans, our skills define us. No skill is more human than the exercise of moral judgment. We are already using AI to automate morally-loaded decisions. In other domains of human activity, automating a task diminishes our skill at that task. Will ‘moral automation’ diminish our moral skill? If so, how can we mitigate that risk, and adapt AI to enable moral ‘ups killing’? Our project will use philosophy and social psychology to answer these questions.