Metaethical framework for artificial intelligence arms races and cyber influence operations

Abstract

This paper presents a metaethical framework, that potentially allows to conceptually grasp current arms races in artificial intelligence and the ethical problems, such as cyber influence operations, connected to these arms races. AI arms races do not slow down, but enhance the weaponisation of AI. Rather than solving ethical problems, the metaethical framework thus first and foremost can be considered as a map, helping to navigate through the complex reality underlying the arms races and ethical problems. In this sense, the metaethical framework should in the future be capable of evaluating different countermeasures such as deplatforming and watermarking.