[istjohn]

Morality is biologically and sociologically constructed. It's not consistent between people, social cliques, regions, or nations. It's a nebulous concept. And unlike, say, our understanding of disease processes, which may be fuzzy and inexact at times but has an external truth we can hope to discover, there is no ground truth that we are approaching in moral philosophy. There is no platonic morality that we approximate with our muddled intuitions. Morality is nothing more or less than those muddled intuitions. It cannot be distilled to cold logic.

What AI might enable however is a superior form of democratic process, wherein an AI surveys the entire population through a natural language interface and synthesizes the nuanced and conflicting desires of the entire society. This deliberative democracy process would ameliorate the distorting effects of campaign funding and issues like uninformed or misinformed voters and low voter participation. It could also allow a sort of citizen feedback line-by-line on proposed legislation and government action.