AW: [aiethics] Thought experiment: Punishment of robots...

[Christian DroЯmann]

Alicebot AI Ethics Committee - http://www.alicebot.org



> Help>Does that make them equal in a way that if one of them killed a =
human
> one
> >could assume that all other bots from this series will as well?
>
> On Earth there is only one species that perform what I would call
> "non-essential" killings, and that's us.

Sadly this is very true...

> Somebody could regard the rest of the species as "dumb" and violence =
be
> a "lateral damage" of intelligence; but there are some fairly =
intelligent
> species out there (dolphins, whales, apes, etc) and doesn't exhibit a
> behaviour even proportional to us regarding violence.

Because they do not have the strong urge to own something or have =
control in
some way just for the sake of it...

> Perhaps the assumption that a bot would be violent enough to kill =
somebody
> is an antropocentric view in itself.

Why must a bot be violent to kill? What if killing was just the best
solution for a logical problem? Think of HAL...he was programmed for
self-defense and although he was by no means violent he killed Bowman, =
Poole
and the rest of the creew because it was the only logic conclusion he =
could
draw for preventing himself from being shut down...
I'd say killing "just for fun" is typically human...

Christian