The Value Space: Where AI and Human Values Meet | Geometry of Trust | Philosophy - Lesson 2

The Value Space: There Isn't One AI, There Are Many | Geometry of Trust | Philosophy Lesson 2

There isn't one thing called "AI values". There are many.

Each deployed AI is its own small, specialised value system — a medical advisor trained and configured for clinical reasoning, a swarm coordinator configured for distributed consensus, a reef manager configured for biodiversity trade-offs. Each one occupies a particular region of the value space. None of them is AI-in-general.

This talk walks through the picture: a large outer space of all possible value positions, containing a human circle shaped by biology, embodiment, culture, and lived experience, and scattered across the space many small specialised AI circles. Some land inside the human circle — medical advisors, writing assistants, legal reasoners, tutors — where their values are in the shadow of human moral thought. Some straddle the boundary — research assistants, ecosystem managers — with part-human, part-configured geometry. Some land entirely outside the human circle — swarm coordinators, reef managers, climate models, grid operators — deliberately configured into regions no human has ever occupied.

The measurements in the mathematics series aren't measuring "AI values." They're measuring the value geometry of one specific deployed AI — deployment by deployment. That matters for governance, for trust, and for what we can honestly claim the measurements prove.