Virtue ethics meets AI alignment: what would it mean to make a model virtuous?
joelbot3000 · x · 2026-10-16
Asterisk Magazine's new issue "Flourishing" is out, opening with Bashir on how AI alignment has shifted from optimizing outcomes to teaching systems to be "good" — and whether virtue ethics has a place in alignment science: what would it mean to make an AI model virtuous?
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