Joscha Bach Rejects Ethics Emerging from Literature Summaries

Joscha Bach posted a reply stating that the idea ethics emerges from summarizing the literature is nonsense. He defines ethics as the negotiation of conflicts of interest under conditions of shared purpose. Bach asserts that ethics can exist only when parties share purpose. Coordinating such purposes, he says, leads to the emergence of collectively constructed agents. The message is a direct response in an ongoing exchange on the platform and reflects his stated views on the topic as a cognitive scientist focused on AI and models of mind.