Normative Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Value Alignment: From Normative Theory to Engineering Practices

This book brings normative ethical theory to AI system development. It shows how we can align artificial intelligence (AI) systems with normative human values by training AI to follow human goals and values. It specifies these normative ethical and philosophical foundations. It then provides techniques to implement these values using state-of-the-art methods for aligning general-purpose language systems. All of this is introduced in a straightforward way through the book’s original concept of dynamic normativity. This book is useful for advanced students and researchers in the fields of the ethics of technology, artificial intelligence, and responsible innovation, as well as technology professionals and policymakers seeking to direct artificial intelligence towards common virtues and the public good.

Nicholas Kluge Corrêa is a researcher and machine learning engineer with over a decade of academic experience, specializing in AI ethics and machine learning. He holds dual PhDs in philosophy from the University of Bonn and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. His work covers AI certification, where he developed frameworks like “Ethical Problem Solving” and played a pivotal role in creating some of the first open-source neural text generation models for Portuguese. Nicholas also led the “Worldwide AI Ethics” survey, the most comprehensive meta-analysis of AI ethical guidelines to date.