The rapid developments of science and technology in China over recent decades, particularly in biomedical research, have brought forward serious challenges regarding ethical governance. Recently, Jian-kui HE, a Chines...The rapid developments of science and technology in China over recent decades, particularly in biomedical research, have brought forward serious challenges regarding ethical governance. Recently, Jian-kui HE, a Chinese scientist, claimed to have "created" the first gene-edited babies, designed to be naturally immune to the human immunodeficiency virus(HIV). The news immediately triggered widespread criticism, denouncement, and debate over the scientific and ethical legitimacy of HE’s genetic experiments. China’s guidelines and regulations have banned germline genome editing on human embryos for clinical use because of scientific and ethical concerns, in accordance with the international consensus. HE’s human experimentation has not only violated these Chinese regulations, but also breached other ethical and regulatory norms. These include questionable scientific value, unreasonable risk-benefit ratio, illegitimate ethics review, invalid informed consent, and regulatory misconduct. This series of ethical failings of HE and his team reveal the institutional failure of the current ethics governance system which largely depends on scientist’s self-regulation. The incident highlights the need for urgent improvement of ethics governance at all levels, the enforcement of technical and ethical guidelines, and the establishment of laws relating to such bioethical issues.展开更多
The paper submits surprising results of systematical investigating a formal-ethical aspect of conjoining Wittgenstein＇s, Moore＇s, Parmenides＇, GSdel＇s, and Lukasiewicz＇s ideas. A critique of Wittgenstein＇s criti...The paper submits surprising results of systematical investigating a formal-ethical aspect of conjoining Wittgenstein＇s, Moore＇s, Parmenides＇, GSdel＇s, and Lukasiewicz＇s ideas. A critique of Wittgenstein＇s critique of the natural language of ethics and of metaphysics results in submitting and elaborating a new paradigm of metaphysics as formal axiology （in particular, formal ethics）. In result, the classical metaphysics and ethics of moral rigor are represented as two-valued algebraic systems of metaphysics and formal ethics respectively. By means of this algebraic model, all the well-known scandal-making metaphysical tenets of Parmenides are produced as translations of corresponding algebraic equations from the symbolic language to the natural one. At the level of submitted discrete mathematical model of formal axiology, Parmenides＇ metaphysical （formal-axiological） concepts ＂consistency＂ and ＂inconsistency,＂ ＂completeness＂ and ＂incompleteness＂ are compared with G^del＇s logic ones. Formal-axiological meanings of the words ＂consistency,＂ ＂incompleteness,＂ ＂being,＂ ＂nonbeing,＂ ＂movement,＂ ＂knowledge,＂ ＂belief,＂ etc., are considered as moral-evaluation-functions determined by one moral-evaluation-variable. Binary moral-evaluation-functions are studied as well. The functions are precisely defined by tables. Precise definitions of ＂formal-axiological-equivalence,＂ ＂formal-axiological-law,＂ and ＂formal-axiological contradiction＂ are submitted. Thus, one can either generate or examine formal-axiological equations of algebra of metaphysics by ＂computing＂ relevant compositions of moral-value-functions. Using this ＂moral-value-table-computation-technique,＂ one can arrive to a surprising conclusion that both the notorious sentence of Moore （called ＂epistemic paradox＂） and the incompleteness sentence of Godel are formally-axiologically inconsistent ones： Hence, they are formally-axiologically equivalent. For overcoming the negative psychological effect of such a surprising result, the author has used graphic models explicating the famous Lukasiewicz＇s statement ＂Logic is morality of thought and speech.＂展开更多
It’s a great honor for me to talk about ethics applied to artificial intelligence here.Most of the problems that we are facing today come from a strong misunderstanding of what ethics means.We tend to think ethics ar...It’s a great honor for me to talk about ethics applied to artificial intelligence here.Most of the problems that we are facing today come from a strong misunderstanding of what ethics means.We tend to think ethics are merely about establishing principles that would help us mitigate risks and secure benefits expected from AI systems.We are on the wrong path.Ethics are much more complex than that.Ethics are about philosophy,not about politics.Ethics are more about asking questions to enlighten decision-making processes,then to provide one-size-fit-all solutions.We are doing what I call cosmetics,which is a makeup using ethics-related vocabulary,notions and concepts to communicate and influence users and consumers,and to send messages to the market.展开更多
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文摘The rapid developments of science and technology in China over recent decades, particularly in biomedical research, have brought forward serious challenges regarding ethical governance. Recently, Jian-kui HE, a Chinese scientist, claimed to have "created" the first gene-edited babies, designed to be naturally immune to the human immunodeficiency virus(HIV). The news immediately triggered widespread criticism, denouncement, and debate over the scientific and ethical legitimacy of HE’s genetic experiments. China’s guidelines and regulations have banned germline genome editing on human embryos for clinical use because of scientific and ethical concerns, in accordance with the international consensus. HE’s human experimentation has not only violated these Chinese regulations, but also breached other ethical and regulatory norms. These include questionable scientific value, unreasonable risk-benefit ratio, illegitimate ethics review, invalid informed consent, and regulatory misconduct. This series of ethical failings of HE and his team reveal the institutional failure of the current ethics governance system which largely depends on scientist’s self-regulation. The incident highlights the need for urgent improvement of ethics governance at all levels, the enforcement of technical and ethical guidelines, and the establishment of laws relating to such bioethical issues.
文摘The paper submits surprising results of systematical investigating a formal-ethical aspect of conjoining Wittgenstein＇s, Moore＇s, Parmenides＇, GSdel＇s, and Lukasiewicz＇s ideas. A critique of Wittgenstein＇s critique of the natural language of ethics and of metaphysics results in submitting and elaborating a new paradigm of metaphysics as formal axiology （in particular, formal ethics）. In result, the classical metaphysics and ethics of moral rigor are represented as two-valued algebraic systems of metaphysics and formal ethics respectively. By means of this algebraic model, all the well-known scandal-making metaphysical tenets of Parmenides are produced as translations of corresponding algebraic equations from the symbolic language to the natural one. At the level of submitted discrete mathematical model of formal axiology, Parmenides＇ metaphysical （formal-axiological） concepts ＂consistency＂ and ＂inconsistency,＂ ＂completeness＂ and ＂incompleteness＂ are compared with G^del＇s logic ones. Formal-axiological meanings of the words ＂consistency,＂ ＂incompleteness,＂ ＂being,＂ ＂nonbeing,＂ ＂movement,＂ ＂knowledge,＂ ＂belief,＂ etc., are considered as moral-evaluation-functions determined by one moral-evaluation-variable. Binary moral-evaluation-functions are studied as well. The functions are precisely defined by tables. Precise definitions of ＂formal-axiological-equivalence,＂ ＂formal-axiological-law,＂ and ＂formal-axiological contradiction＂ are submitted. Thus, one can either generate or examine formal-axiological equations of algebra of metaphysics by ＂computing＂ relevant compositions of moral-value-functions. Using this ＂moral-value-table-computation-technique,＂ one can arrive to a surprising conclusion that both the notorious sentence of Moore （called ＂epistemic paradox＂） and the incompleteness sentence of Godel are formally-axiologically inconsistent ones： Hence, they are formally-axiologically equivalent. For overcoming the negative psychological effect of such a surprising result, the author has used graphic models explicating the famous Lukasiewicz＇s statement ＂Logic is morality of thought and speech.＂
文摘It’s a great honor for me to talk about ethics applied to artificial intelligence here.Most of the problems that we are facing today come from a strong misunderstanding of what ethics means.We tend to think ethics are merely about establishing principles that would help us mitigate risks and secure benefits expected from AI systems.We are on the wrong path.Ethics are much more complex than that.Ethics are about philosophy,not about politics.Ethics are more about asking questions to enlighten decision-making processes,then to provide one-size-fit-all solutions.We are doing what I call cosmetics,which is a makeup using ethics-related vocabulary,notions and concepts to communicate and influence users and consumers,and to send messages to the market.
