Part #8: A First Suggested Methodological Approach Towards Solutions
I am imagining such a methodology that could be applied from an early age to a later age and that could be practiced as a life-long learning of one’s cognitive processes in inter-action with another person’s cognitive processes-to-action. As implied in my definition on human intelligence (HI), that what makes us intelligent humans is how we think about and act with the other (irrespective of which one technology we try to design, try to improve or try to use).
These two imaginary agents (i.e. the human and the other) are actors that would ideally act inter-subjectively and thus would be aware of each one’s preferences, biases and human frailties in terms of the encompassing “Human Intelligence” as suggested above. So too, such methodology to instill such abilities could be one that can consequentially be applied towards the ethos of AI. This brings me to Ethical Consciousness and Intersubjective Discernment.
I introduce here, Dr. Gilda Darlas’ two decades of research and fieldwork. Dr. Darlas has both an academic and professional background in Artificial Intelligence as well as in Ethics.
Dr. Darlas’ work aims at methodologically increasing Ethical Consciousness and Intersubjective Discernment in human beings. Her approach and applications in association to ethics and AI are, to me, dramatically different from the approach suggested in, for instance, the World Economic Forum’s white paper.
While Dr. Darlas does not dismiss these approaches as offered by these experts, she too (as do I) sees them as temporary and incomplete solutions towards a more transformational and paradigm shifting solution where the human being is considered and not only, for instance, the AI.
The terms, Ethical Consciousness and intersubjective Discernment, so states Dr. Darlas, are used to explain “the capacity to see and understand our human nature as a dynamic composition of conditioned and conditioning factors. Understanding this, is not only important for a proper thinking of a conscious human mind but is a key condition for the development of ethical consciousness as it was proven throughout our global research.”
The methodology towards achieving these, she continues, was coined as “Disciplinary Phenomenology for Ethical Development.”
Dr. Darlas states that this term defines a set of “processes and techniques that focus on developing mental discipline proper attention, vision and understanding of the subjective content of human experience.”
Dr. Darlas underlines that this was a fundamental development in order to bring about “systematic transformation of our ways of relating to ourselves and others. In other words, the methodology seeks to achieve intersubjective discernment from where Ethical Consciousness and Wisdom could fully flourish.”
Gilda heads a Foundation and a Center for Research in Ethical Development, presently based in Mexico. Through these her team and she support about 500 schools in a number of countries and via a number of operational languages. They do so with methodological programs for ethical development to pupils, students, parents and teachers.
Dr. Darlas’ work has been recognized by established organizations and has received a number of nominations and awards. She aims to bring more prototypes into more schools around the world. Also she wishes to invite others to “co-create new ways in which the principles and approach to ethical development can be put to service humanity.”
The programs enable humans to “learn how to think and not what to think. This is not a question of being intelligent or acquiring more data or knowledge, this is about being able to achieve deepest levels of comprehension and discernment by learning how to think”.
“The need for cognitive development in schools as the required platform for ethical development in teachers and students is urgent,” shares Dr. Darlas.
“Nonetheless, we realized,” she states, “that education was and still is more preoccupied with content and its methodological approaches for acquiring and playing with such content than on helping children to develop a proper thought process, let alone the intersubjective discernment required for ethical consciousness. This results in blinding the human mind… where self-centered assumptions rule our perceptions, thoughts and actions.”
Dr. Darlas is in the process of finding social impact investors to enable her to re-open her university campus in Mexico. Uethics,[17] is the name of this university. Uethics is to be a highly specialized university, aimed at advancing studies and R&D in the areas of ethics and discernment. It would be one of a kind in the LATAM region. It would also stand out compared to existing tertiary ethics or Computer Science programs from around the world.
In this tertiary educational institution, she aims to offer 3 Master Degrees, one of which has an AI focus: the “Master’s Degree in Ethical Development and Artificial Intelligence”. The program is described as follows:
“This program does not address issues arising from cyber-security, information technology, biotechnology, and other emerging fields, instead, we address the topic of biases on the design of AI algorithms. This means we focus on the designer’s self-centered tendencies and his/her distorted perceptions when designing AI algorithms. Then we will encourage students to design prototypes that will enable subjective design algorithms in artificial intelligence solutions.”
Perhaps those who are concerned about implementing ethics into or around Artificial Intelligence beyond normative manners only, might increase value from engaging into such a post-graduate program. At least I want to believe that leaders and experts in policy-making, academics, the humanities and in tech could benefit and could aid to benefit the common citizens influenced by AI by implementing the findings in such research and in such Master’s degree into the specific realm of their professional, political or communal applications.
Just perhaps, it will then be more conceivable to create an algorithm to discern while still providing means to offer our human cognition with means to discern as well.
Those who are interested in exploring impact investment towards the development of the first Uethics university campus in Mexico can contact Dr. Darlas by requesting further information from me here on LinkedIn. One can also find publicly available materials by doing an internet search on “Dr. Gilda Darlas” or by visiting the URLs:
- http://eudeglobal.org/2015/la-fundadora/
- https://www.uethics.org/university
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Contents
- 1: Considerations, Reflections & A First Suggested Solution.
- 2: The Logic, Emotion & Ethics of Writing about Artificial Intelligence & Beyond.
- 3: AI at the Center vs. Humans at the Center of our Considerations.
- 4: AI, Ethics & Potentially Supporting Solutions.
- 5: Intelligence, Learning & Sense of Reality.
- 6: Science Fiction, Technological Societies & Human Intelligence.
- 7: Technologies & Human Skills, Methods & Processes.
- 8: A First Suggested Methodological Approach Towards Solutions.