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Modern maxims for an AI oracle

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As powerful institutions increasingly promote AI systems, efforts to align those systems with human morality have grown. An open-source AI system aims to predict human moral judgments across a broad spectrum of everyday situations expressed in natural language. Identifying the limitations of such systems offers important insights for future work.

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