Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction

Should AI technologies follow moral principles? (Can they follow moral principles?) Moreover, if AI systems should follow moral principles, should they follow the same moral principles as human beings or different ones? In my presentation, I will discuss these questions and relate them to the differences among what I will call human-human interaction, human-AI interaction, and AI-AI interaction. Increasingly, we are interacting with AI chatbots and other AI-powered technologies in different contexts, and some members of the tech industry are claiming that there will soon be highly advanced forms of so-called agentic AI systems in all lines of work. Some AI ethics researchers have discussed whether there should be ethical “double standards” (different ethical principles for humans and for AI systems). I will suggest that we should have ethical “triple standards”: different moral standards depending on whether there is interaction among humans, interaction among humans and AI systems, or interaction among different AI systems.