At least two studies have pitted AIs (using large language model technology) against the New York Times weekly “Ethicist” column — and the chatbots seem to do just fine. Is it ok to take their advice?
LLMs have “a superhuman ability to evaluate moral situations, because a human can only be trained on so many books and so many social experiences—and an LLM basically knows the Internet,” says Thilo Hagendorff, a computer scientist at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. “The moral reasoning of LLMs is way better than the moral reasoning of an average human.”
Read the full article at Scientific American.