The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants
<|reference_start|>The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants: This paper focuses on the opportunities and the ethical and societal risks posed by advanced AI assistants. We define advanced AI assistants as artificial agents with natural language interfaces, whose function is to plan and execute sequences of actions on behalf of a user, across one or more domains, in line with the user's expectations. The paper starts by considering the technology itself, providing an overview of AI assistants, their technical foundations and potential range of applications. It then explores questions around AI value alignment, well-being, safety and malicious uses. Extending the circle of inquiry further, we next consider the relationship between advanced AI assistants and individual users in more detail, exploring topics such as manipulation and persuasion, anthropomorphism, appropriate relationships, trust and privacy. With this analysis in place, we consider the deployment of advanced assistants at a societal scale, focusing on cooperation, equity and access, misinformation, economic impact, the environment and how best to evaluate advanced AI assistants. Finally, we conclude by providing a range of recommendations for researchers, developers, policymakers and public stakeholders.<|reference_end|>
@article{gabriel2024the,
    title={The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants},
    author={Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini, Geoff Keeling, Lisa Anne Hendricks,
  Verena Rieser, Hasan Iqbal, Nenad Tomav{s}ev, Ira Ktena, Zachary Kenton,
  Mikel Rodriguez, Seliem El-Sayed, Sasha Brown, Canfer Akbulut, Andrew Trask,
  Edward Hughes, A. Stevie Bergman, Renee Shelby, Nahema Marchal, Conor
  Griffin, Juan Mateos-Garcia, Laura Weidinger, Winnie Street, Benjamin 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 de Haas, Yetunde
  Ibitoye, Allan Dafoe, Beth Goldberg, S'ebastien 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 Morris, Helen King, Blaise Ag"uera y Arcas, William Isaac,
  James Manyika},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16244},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.16244},
    primaryClass={cs.CY}
}