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How to Make Artificial Wisdom Possible International Psychogeriatrics (2020), 32:8, 909–911 © International Psychogeriatric Association 2020 doi:10.1017/S1041610220001684 COMMENTARY How to make Artificial Wisdom possible In advocating for the development of Artificial (e.g., https://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous- Wisdom (AW), Jeste et al. (2020) lay a foundation weapons/), research on AI does not have a single in understanding intelligence and wisdom and their overarching goal. While there are engineers seeking importance to humanity. They outline the develop- to use AI to address problems facing humanity such ment of recent successes in the field of Artificial as expert systems to improve medical diagnosis like Intelligence (AI) and our scientific understanding Caduceus (e.g., Banks, 1986) and other beneficial of human intelligence and wisdom. With this as systems, there are also engineers developing sys- grounding, the discussion of the construct of human tems, even outside of the weaponizing of AI that wisdom is taken as the basis for proposing governing concerns the scientists represented affiliated with the principles for the development of AW. However, Future of Life Institute, systems that can threaten while there may be substantial benefit in having jobs or generally present competition for humanity computers with AW, it is important to ask whether (see https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of- it is scientifically feasible to develop true AW that technology/why-we-should-think-about-the-threat- mimics human wisdom. of-artificial-intelligence). Still other researchers take In the midst of an airborne viral pandemic, wear- the development of AI as a scientific approach to ing a mask can be smart. In the midst of a health understand human cognition (see Forbus, 2010), crisis in which people are dying, lying about mortal- as a form of Cognitive Science without any interest ity statistics is not smart, especially given that in a in serving humanity but just as a method of scien- democracy the truth will come out eventually. tific research on psychological processes. Although neither of these situations seems on its In the early days of AI research, the first goals for face to be about wisdom, could AI tell the difference researchers were to produce programs that could between a smart and a stupid choice in these cases? emulate smart human behavior such as producing Although the situations are presented as if there are intelligent answers for IQ test-like problems or play- clear smart choices, is it true that one choice would ing games like chess or checkers at human levels be always be judged by everyone to be smart? In the of excellence (see Nilsson, 2010). However, over present world context, some political advisors might time, researchers realized that it is possible to reach say that given the probabilities of infection (low) and human levels of performance on narrowly specific the need to keep morale positive (high) and possible tasks such as playing checkers or solving word pro- negative implications of the appearance of someone blems, but these solutions can be achieved without a wearing a mask, perhaps it would be smart for leaders deep understanding of human cognition. They are to not wear masks, even if this models behavior is not really only brittle surface simulations of behavior. smart. Furthermore, the same political advisors Even more complicated examples such as Colby’s might say that in the short term, the political benefit (1973) Parry model which was intended to simulate of good news about a crisis and reducing bad news human paranoia, only used a simple set of rules that such as increased mortality by shading statistics out- operated on patterns of words in sentences. While weighs the principle of truth and transparency. Thus, sufficient to pass a modified version of the Turing society’s values for public goods such as health and test (Turing, 1950), Parry only mimicked the symp- truth can be in conflict with individual values for toms of paranoia without a clear theory of paranoid political goods. When values are in conflict, leaders ideation; there was no real model of the internal often make choices that are clever or smart about their thoughts and feelings of paranoia. This approach own needs, but are often not wise. Could an AI was parodied by Weizenbaum (1974) by showing system make the smart choice, or the clever choice? that mimicking the appearance behavior does not Is it even possible for a computer to determine what a advance a scientific understanding of human psy- wise choice would be? chology (also see Colby, 1981, and commentaries). Although Jeste et al.(2020) state that the ultimate This points up a fundamental problem with the use goal of AI is to serve humanity, while that is an of a Turing test advocated by Jeste et al. for assessing aspirational goal for some such as the Future of Life fundamental psychological processes like intelli- Institute (https://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/), and gence or wisdom: The Turing test only assesses the concerns about the potential societal threats of AI the putative output expression of a process Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Cornell University Library, on 16 Sep 2020 at 13:41:26, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220001684 910 Commentary (Church-Turing equivalence; e.g., Soare, 1996), but DIKW_pyramid) represents a relationship among such expression can be functionally simulated with- Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom, which out the underlying aspects of the process that are bears an interesting metaphoric relationship with most critical. This means that outside such a test, human wisdom. Data refer to the numbers or the there can be deviations in performance, especially observations that might be made. Information might when the demands of a situation become more sub- be thought of as the context within which the obser- stantial challenges. vations are made. Knowledge might be conceived of From simple surface emulations of behavior of as the meaning of the observations or the functional complex psychological processes such as paranoia, it use of the numbers and wisdom could be described was clear that AI needed to model the mechanisms as the use of values to guide knowledge use. This underlying general cognitive abilities like analogical notion of values either as motivation or goals is reasoning or language comprehension rather than interesting because the idea of human wisdom being the manifest behavior. However even as AI has grounded in values is important (Tiberius, 2008). improved in performance in game playing, beating This idea that values should shape the use of knowl- experts at checkers then chess and most recently edge appears to be common to both the psychologi- go – considered a long-standing challenge for AI cal science (Grossmann et al., 2020) and computer (Singh et al., 2017) – and improved in problem- science notions of wisdom. In fact, as with psycho- solving, pattern recognition, and translation, AI logical science and philosophy, Jeste et al. have performance is still at the level of human abilities identified several moral virtues as guiding values which for performance that depends on aspects of human they call principles for the development of AW. life that cannot be described in information theoretic In some views (see Schwartz and Sharpe, 2006), terms such as emotion. In part, this may be due to wisdom is conceived of as a master virtue that works the limited scientific understanding of the basic to organize or mediate other virtues such as empa- processes that underlie natural human intelligence thy. By contrast, Jeste et al. identify moral virtues as is (e.g., see Searle, 1980, and commentaries). If the important guiding principles for AI, suggesting that accurate modelling of human intelligence remains a these are necessary preconditions for wisdom. These challenge for AI, will wisdom represent a greater moral virtues are common across a number of theo- challenge? Clearly Jeste et al. believe AW is a solvable ries of wisdom in humans (e.g., Grossmann et al., problem. 2020): (1) the importance of reflection and perspec- However, as Jeste et al. point out, human intelli- tive taking, (2) empathy and compassion, and gence does not have a single agreed upon definition, (3) emotional understanding and emotional self- although as they note, there are a number of stan- regulation. As guiding principles for the develop- dardized IQ tests that presumably assume such ment of AW, as opposed to virtues managed by definitions. It is important to note that Binet, the wisdom, Jeste et al. are asserting these as founda- father of the modern IQ test, described the faculty of tional abilities necessary for the manifestation of intelligence as judgment or good sense (Binet and wisdom. However, if viewed as necessary founda- Simon, 1916). Thus, it is problematic that standard- tions for wisdom, these virtues are in domains that ized IQ tests as identified by Jeste et al. are not tests are most difficultforcomputerscience to advance. of judgment or good sense. The practice of measuring In this respect, Jeste et al.importantlyreflect this intelligence does not accord with the much richer and challenge and suggest the importance of human– more complex conception that Binet about intelli- machine interaction in developing AW as well as gence. This reflects compromises that are made to the critical point that AW needs to be adaptive operationalize complex human psychology. based on experience. Rather than conceiving the Furthermore, prudential judgment or good sense, wise computer, they suggest that whatever starting the synonyms offered by Binet for intelligence might point AW has, which could be remote from what be associated with wisdom, at least per Aristotle in the would constitute human wisdom, feedback from Nichomachean Ethics Book VI.
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