Precautionary Principle
A risk governance principle originating in environmental policy, which holds that when an activity poses a threat of serious or irreversible harm to human health or the environment, the lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing protective measures.
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Some AI ethics researchers advocate applying the 'precautionary principle': in cases where it cannot be determined whether an AI has sentience, training procedures that might cause it something analogous to suffering should be avoided.
The precautionary principle has been criticized for potentially causing regulatory paralysis, since almost any new technology carries unknown risks.
The precautionary principle was first systematized in the field of environmental policy; the 1992 Rio Declaration defined it as the principle that when an activity poses a threat of serious or irreversible harm to human health or the environment, the lack of scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason to postpone protective measures.
If the precautionary principle is extended without boundaries, it could lead to assigning moral status to any complex system, such as thermostats or ecological simulation programs.
The precautionary principle under moral uncertainty holds that when it cannot be determined whether an entity possesses morally relevant attributes, taking protective measures at an acceptable cost is preferable to waiting until certainty is established.
The precautionary principle holds that even if the probability of an extinction-level risk is not high, its consequences warrant the investment of enormous resources to prevent it.
预防原则起源于环境法领域，最初被用于处理化学物质和生物技术的风险管理
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Some AI ethics researchers advocate applying the 'precautionary principle': in cases where it cannot be determined whether an AI has sentience, training procedures that might cause it something analogous to suffering should be avoided.
50%UnverifiedThe precautionary principle has been criticized for potentially causing regulatory paralysis, since almost any new technology carries unknown risks.
50%UnverifiedThe precautionary principle was first systematized in the field of environmental policy; the 1992 Rio Declaration defined it as the principle that when an activity poses a threat of serious or irreversible harm to human health or the environment, the lack of scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason to postpone protective measures.
50%UnverifiedIf the precautionary principle is extended without boundaries, it could lead to assigning moral status to any complex system, such as thermostats or ecological simulation programs.
50%UnverifiedThe precautionary principle under moral uncertainty holds that when it cannot be determined whether an entity possesses morally relevant attributes, taking protective measures at an acceptable cost is preferable to waiting until certainty is established.
50%UnverifiedThe precautionary principle holds that even if the probability of an extinction-level risk is not high, its consequences warrant the investment of enormous resources to prevent it.
50%Unverified预防原则起源于环境法领域，最初被用于处理化学物质和生物技术的风险管理
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