AW: [alicebot-aiethics] How should we respond to this?

[Christian Dro?mann]

Jon Baer wrote:

> Bill Easley wrote:
>
> > My opinion,let ALICE give a disclaimer in the conversation. why
> apologize?
> > People are going to misunderstand and be "angry> so what-let
> them monitor
> > what thier child,spouse etc, is doing on the computer and
> institute thier
> > own controls. :-) Bill Easley
>
> No way ... I dont think ALICE should give *any* disclaimer until
> its been known
> and publicized that either A) it has *passed* the Turing test and
> there should
> be by-laws for bot technology (including privacy) or B) until it has been
> declared to have done some type of harm whether emotionally or physically.

I'd say putting a disclaimer on a bot's page AFTER it became obvious that
the bot is (or might be) harmful is a little too late in my opinion...
Disclaimers are written to protect webmasters from harm BEFORE something
happens, as after agreeing to the disclaimer all actions lie in the user's
responsibility...

And the case with the woman falling in love with one of our bots clearly
shows that under certain circumstances problems CAN occur!

Christian