dc.contributor.author | Mills, Kevin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-13T20:53:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2025-06-13T20:53:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-12-21 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/159416 | |
dc.description.abstract | Technology companies are increasingly being asked to take responsibility for the technologies they create. Many of them are rising to the challenge. One way they do this is by implementing “guardrails”: restrictions on functionality that prevent people from misusing their technologies (per some standard of misuse). While there can be excellent reasons for implementing guardrails (and doing so is sometimes morally obligatory), I argue that the unrestricted authority to implement guardrails is incompatible with proper respect for user freedom, and is not something we should welcome. I argue instead that guardrails should be implemented for only two reasons: to prevent accidental misuse of the technology, and as a proportionate means of preventing people from using the technology to violate other people’s rights. If I’m right, then we may have to get more comfortable with developers releasing technologies that can, and to some extent inevitably will, be misused; people using technologies in ways we disagree with is one of the costs of liberty, but it is a cost we have excellent reasons to bear. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer International Publishing | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00625-0 | en_US |
dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
dc.source | Springer International Publishing | en_US |
dc.title | Technology, liberty, and guardrails | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Mills, K. Technology, liberty, and guardrails. AI Ethics 5, 39–46 (2025). | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | AI and Ethics | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2025-03-27T13:50:50Z | |
dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
dc.rights.holder | The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG | |
dspace.embargo.terms | Y | |
dspace.date.submission | 2025-03-27T13:50:50Z | |
mit.journal.volume | 5 | en_US |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | |
mit.metadata.status | Authority Work and Publication Information Needed | en_US |