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

[Robby Garner]

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From: Ruff Ryan <saxist4lif@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 4:32 AM
Subject: [alicebot-aiethics] Re: No more ethics concerns ?


> 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?

If a bot is capable of hiding anything from it's creator(s), then either
another human has taken control of the bot, or the bot has achieved some
level of "conscious" intent apart from the design of it's creator.

On the other hand, if a bot can consistently win the Turing game, there is
no deception involved because it would be exhibiting hard AI, and therefore
exists ipso facto as it's own being. That would not be a deception, it would
be truth.

Regards,

Robby.