[alicebot-aiethics] Re: No more eithics concerns

[Christopher Fahey [askrom]]

>> That's an interesting image - I like it a lot. I can imagine the
>> headlines ("Machine Proves that Human Beings are No More than Just
>> Machines") People will wonder if your "advanced MRI machine" isn't
just
>> trying to spread anti-human propaganda! :)

> Would it really be "anti-human propaganda" or could it be a 
> testament of how far the human race has progressed?  The 
> understanding of the human mind is an extraordinary feat.

I think it would be both! By the time such a device is created, it will
likely be designed/engineered/built almost entirely by machines.


> Would the machince seek legal recognition for a reason other than to 
> prevent itself from being hacked?  If I were the machine, I'd sure 
> want my privacy...

In my nightmare model, the machine would seek legal recognition so that
it can seize control of the world. An alternative to military conquest
of humanity, robots might also win us over through media manipulation
and propaganda. They could socially engineer us to think of them as
equals, then run for office, etc. 

I don't really believe this stuff is going to happen, but it's a fun
mind game and it's far more plausible than burying our heads in the sand
and pretending that machines will never equal or better humans in almost
every way.

Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines posits that the rate at which
robots grow superior to us will precisely match the rate at which our
species grows accustomed to existing symbiotically with robots. By the
time robots are smarter than us, we will have computers and networks so
far embedded into our own minds, and integrated into our human
experience, that humans and robots will be indistinguishable. 

-Cf

[christopher eli fahey]
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