Ethical ChatGPT: Concerns, Challenges, and Commandments

TL;DR

This paper discusses ethical concerns related to ChatGPT, including bias, privacy, and abuse, and proposes practical guidelines for stakeholders to promote ethical use of the model.

Contribution

It identifies key ethical challenges of ChatGPT and offers actionable commandments for stakeholders to ensure responsible deployment.

Findings

Highlights specific ethical issues like bias, privacy, and abuse.

Proposes practical commandments as guidelines for ethical use.

Aims to motivate responsible application of ChatGPT.

Abstract

Large language models, e.g. ChatGPT are currently contributing enormously to make artificial intelligence even more popular, especially among the general population. However, such chatbot models were developed as tools to support natural language communication between humans. Problematically, it is very much a ``statistical correlation machine" (correlation instead of causality) and there are indeed ethical concerns associated with the use of AI language models such as ChatGPT, such as Bias, Privacy, and Abuse. This paper highlights specific ethical concerns on ChatGPT and articulates key challenges when ChatGPT is used in various applications. Practical commandments for different stakeholders of ChatGPT are also proposed that can serve as checklist guidelines for those applying ChatGPT in their applications. These commandment examples are expected to motivate the ethical use of ChatGPT.