Darren Hick talks legal, ethical, moral issues surrounding AI

On Northern Michigan station 9 and 10 News, reporter Nicholas Simon spoke to three professors about the legal, ethical and moral issues surrounding the use of artificial intelligence. One of them was Furman University’s Darren Hick, associate professor of philosophy, who has spent much of his career researching the ethics and philosophy behind copyright and plagiarism.

Hick commented on how AI has impacted him personally with large language models training on his books, and while producing his newest book, the temptation he faced to rely on the technology. “I’ve just published a book, and the siren song for using AI was really sweet for this thing, he said. “AI says, why are you struggling through that? Why don’t you just let me write that paragraph for you? And the answer is because I don’t need another book. The point of writing this was to figure out what my own thoughts were on it, and AI can’t help me with that,” Hick added.