Why AI companies are hiring philosophers to help develop their models
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SUTHERLAND: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Anthropic's Claude models are just obsessed with honesty. You keep hearing that term in its - in the output, and that's a sign of kind of the deontological structure. There's certain things that a model cannot do. It can't say anything that would be untrue. And - now, you can run into problems with that because there's times that an untruth could, you know, perhaps save a life or it could be for the greater good. Then the other kind of opposing school is called consequentialism. And that's kind of a form of utilitarianism. And the idea is you look at what is going to create the greater good. If you take the notion of self-driving cars, if there's going to be an accident, the car has to be able to quickly decide what's the least tragic way to crash. And if it chooses to hit one person rather than, you know, a family of five, that's a consequentialist decision.

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