The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.16244
• Publication Date: 2024-04-24
• Authors: Iason Gabriel; Arianna Manzini; Geoff Keeling; Lisa Anne Hendricks; Verena Rieser; Hasan Iqbal; Nenad Tomašev; Sofia Ira Ktena; Zachary Kenton; M. Balsa Rodríguez; Seliem El-Sayed; Sasha Brown; Canfer Akbulut; Andrew Trask; Edward Hughes; A. S. Bergman; Renee Shelby; Nahema Marchal; Conor Griffin; Juan Mateos-García; Laura Weidinger; Winnie Street; Benjamin P. Lange; Alex Ingerman; Alison Lentz; Reed Enger; Andrew Barakat; Victoria Krakovna; John Oliver Siy; Zeb Kurth‐Nelson; Amanda McCroskery; Vijay Bolina; Harry Law; Murray Shanahan; Lize Alberts; Borja Balle; Sarah Haas; Yetunde Ibitoye; Allan Dafoe; Beth Goldberg; Sébastien Krier; Alexander Reese; Sims Witherspoon; Will Hawkins; Maribeth Rauh; Don Wallace; Matija Franklin; Josh A. Goldstein; Joel Lehman; Michael Klenk; Shannon Vallor; Courtney Biles; Meredith Ringel M...; Helen King; Blaise Agüera y A...; William Isaac; James Manyika
• Keywords: FOS: Computer and information sciences; Computer Science - Computers and Society; Computers and Society (cs.CY)

This paper focuses on the opportunities and ethical societal risks posed by advanced AI assistants. We define assistants as artificial agents with natural language interfaces, whose function is to plan execute sequences of actions behalf a user, across one or more domains, in line user's expectations. The starts considering technology itself, providing an overview assistants, their technical foundations potential range applications. It then explores questions around value alignment, well-being, safety malicious uses. Extending circle inquiry further, we next consider relationship between individual users detail, exploring topics such manipulation persuasion, anthropomorphism, appropriate relationships, trust privacy. With this analysis place, deployment at scale, focusing cooperation, equity access, misinformation, economic impact, environment how best evaluate Finally, conclude recommendations for researchers, developers, policymakers public stakeholders.