Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are becoming ubiquitous. We must determine how to live well alongside AI. Currently, the most prominent candidate answers follow a principlist approach. We find the dominant principlist approaches to be ill-suited to providing forward-looking moral guidance regarding living well with artificial intelligence. In contrast, we argue for an Aristotelian virtue ethics approach to artificial intelligence ethics. Aristotelian virtue ethics provides a concrete and actionable guidance that is also flexible; thus, it is uniquely well placed to deal with the forward-looking and rapidly changing landscape of life with artificial intelligence.
Dr. Darby Vickers is an assistant professor of philosophy at University of San Diego. Her research focuses on expertise and skill acquisition and transmission and sits at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of education. Her dissertation, Is Virtue an Expertise?: The Epistemology of Virtue in Plato’s Meno & Republic, looks at the intersection of these topics in Plato. Her research draws on contemporary philosophy and cognitive science as well as her training in ancient philosophy. She has co-authored articles on virtue ethics, ethics of artificial intelligence and doctoral student education. She teaches courses in practical and theoretical ethics, ancient philosophy and philosophy of education.
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