[alicebot-aiethics] Re: No more ethics concerns ?

[Ruff Ryan]

I don't think this really involves the bot so much as
it involves our society's rapidly degrading business
ethics.

In order for the bot to learn about a person,
information must be stored and with the possibility of
retrieval.  If the bot can retrieve the infomation,
its programmer can.  So the bot itself has no privacy
from its creator.

So if you tell "FOO Ltd" that you have an eight year
old son, rest assured that that information will be
stored and researched.  It's up to anti-spam
regulations to make sure you don't recieve unsolicited
emails from FOO about the latest action figure.

A scarier prospect would be the ability of a bot to
hide information from its creator.  If the bot is
capable of winning the Turing game, it is capable of
decieving humans.  A bot who can decieve humans and
hide the information it learns would become
unpredictable.  Is this what conscienceness really is?

Ryan



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