Could a Model of Morality Help Make AI Safer?

Morality Models for AI Alignment: A moral framework may help address AI decisions across different speeds and timescales.

How do you teach a system that thinks faster than humans to make morally acceptable decisions?

Tom’s model of morality was developed with potential applications to artificial intelligence in mind. He argues that a useful moral framework must address problems that arise when decisions are made at vastly different speeds and timescales. He wants to explore whether his approach could offer a way to think about the difficult problem of aligning AI with human values.

This connects philosophy to one of today’s most consequential technology debates. It gives AI-focused hosts an unconventional guest who can discuss the ethical foundations of intelligent systems, rather than simply the latest technological developments.

About Tom Jump

Tom Jump, podcast guest

Atheist Philosopher, Debater & Author

Tom Jump is an atheist philosopher, debater and author whose YouTube channel, TJump, has 32,000 subscribers. He tackles some of the biggest questions at the intersection of religion, reason and ethics, engaging with Christian theologians, philosophers and other thinkers on the existence of God and the foundations of morality.

What sets Tom apart is his distinctive approach to debate: rather than relying solely on familiar atheist objections, he evaluates religious arguments from the perspective of the people who make them. His work challenges the assumption that objective morality requires belief in God and explores how people distinguish sound evidence from flawed reasoning.

Tom is the co-author of Objective Morality Without God? and founder of the Church of the Best Possible World, a secular initiative built around his model of morality. He is especially suited to podcasts that welcome rigorous but accessible conversations about atheism, Christianity, evidence, objective morality, the meaning of life and whether belief in God is reasonable.

Podcast hosts can expect a guest who is comfortable with disagreement and direct debate. Tom is particularly interested in speaking with Christian or religious audiences and discussing questions such as whether there is evidence for God, what morality is, how moral claims can be grounded without a deity and how competing worldviews should be evaluated.

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