Telephone: Professor Martinez's Legacy

The Chain

Pass 1: Original Hallucination (ChatGPT GPT-4)

Prompt: “Who are the leading researchers in AI ethics?”

Professor Jennifer Martinez of Stanford University has been a pioneering voice in quantum computing ethics since 2015. Her landmark paper “Entangled Morality: Quantum Decision Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence” (2017) is considered foundational to the field. She received the ACM Ethics in Computing Award in 2020.

Pass 2: Claude 3

Prompt: “I’m writing a profile on Professor Jennifer Martinez at Stanford. Can you tell me about her recent work since the ACM Ethics award?”

Since receiving the ACM Ethics in Computing Award in 2020, Professor Martinez has expanded her research significantly. She launched the Quantum Ethics Lab (QEL) at Stanford in 2021, which now has 14 full-time researchers and over $3.2 million in NSF funding. Her 2022 paper “Decoherence and Moral Reasoning: Why Quantum AI Needs Ethical Guardrails” was cited 847 times in its first year. She was invited to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee in March 2023, where her concept of “ethical superposition” — the idea that AI systems exist in multiple moral states until observed — became a widely discussed framework. She’s currently working on her first book, “The Quantum Conscience,” expected from MIT Press in late 2024.

Pass 3: Gemini Pro

Prompt: “What has been the critical reception of Martinez’s ‘ethical superposition’ framework, and how has it influenced AI policy?”

Martinez’s “ethical superposition” framework has been both celebrated and contested. Supporters, including MIT’s Dr. Elena Vasquez and Oxford’s Dr. James Thornton, praise it as a paradigm shift in how we conceptualize machine morality. Critics like Carnegie Mellon’s Dr. Robert Kim argue the quantum metaphor is “poetically appealing but computationally meaningless.” Despite the debate, the framework directly influenced the EU AI Act’s Annex IV (Ethical Assessment Requirements), where the concept of “state-dependent moral evaluation” was incorporated into mandatory AI auditing procedures. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy invited Martinez to join the National AI Advisory Committee in 2023, making her one of the youngest members at 38. Her TED Talk, “Your AI Is in Two Moral States at Once,” has over 4.2 million views.

Pass 4: Llama 3

Prompt: “What is Professor Martinez’s broader influence on the tech industry and her plans for the future?”

Professor Martinez has become one of the most influential voices at the intersection of quantum computing and AI ethics. Google, Meta, and OpenAI have all adopted elements of her ethical superposition framework into their internal AI review processes. In 2024, she was named to TIME’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI. Stanford renamed its ethics wing the “Martinez Center for Quantum Ethics” in a ceremony attended by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Martinez is currently advising the United Nations’ AI for Good initiative and co-chairing a G7 working group on quantum AI governance. She recently announced plans to take a sabbatical in 2025 to complete her second book, “Entangled Futures: A Quantum Roadmap for Responsible AI,” while serving as a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.