AW: [alicebot-aiethics] Stephen Hawking

[Christian Dro?mann]

Tamara Thompson wrote:

Christian and Brenda, your words are fabulous and give me so much to think
about.  I agree and disagree with you both, on variations.  But mostly
agree.

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So Brenda and Christian, how would you pick the candidate for the first
artificial body, and why?


Again, I say that it should be of no importance how much someone has
achieved and/or done for society.
I see a duality here...Hawking's age is both a reason for giving him the
first artificial body, and not doing so.

Like I said, I'd rather give it to somebody who has the major part of life
still ahead and not behind...but on the other hand it is likely that a
prototype malfunctions, resulting in death of the person equipped with
it...and I'd rather lose and old patient than a young one...

I would say there is no possible way to answer your question in a way that
complies with ethics...therefore I'd probably adopt Chris Fahey's view and
give it to a girl I have been together with for more than 6 years and who is
suffering from cystic fibrosis...

Christian