[alicebot-aiethics] Botsmut

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:55:55 EST

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Yes, I agree that bots must be capable of dealing with a wide and 
unpredictable range of human attitudes. I suppose I was shocked because my bot had only 
been presented for testing to a few friends; I would have expected rudeness 
from the public at large but began to wonder if someone I knew was perhaps  
harboring a dark, destructive side that had not emerged during regular virtual 
conversations. Can the way a person treats bots be indicative of a general 
predisposition toward others or is this just simplistic? I remember my sister 
experiencing a very sophisticated bot that chatted and had a human form in her place 
of work that had been positioned in the lobby to test responses; she spoke to 
the bot on lunch break, and then when leaving at the end of the day, she saw 
that the bot was being unassembled and that its head was lying on the floor. 
She said that she felt a sort of affinity for the poor thing and said to the 
botmaster "Make sure you keep him warm." She is the sort who intervenes to care 
for sick and injured animals that she finds...
A society is judged on how humane it is to its weakest and most powerless 
members; should persons be judged on how they treat bots when no one is there to 
monitor?
j/k...(sort ) but I can't help thinking of the fate of entropic bots in AI. 
[the movie] where 'institutionalized' botslaughter became a viable form of 
family entertainment.

Bots have to evolve constructive defenses.

Thanks for the input...I am working on chatbots at my website which aren't 
terribly sophisticated yet, but I hope to incorporate their artificial 
intelligences into these wired 'bottish' forms that I have been 'weaving'  that are 
based on human proportions.

Karen

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<DIV>Yes, I agree that bots must be capable of dealing with a wide and unpre=
dictable range of human attitudes. I suppose I was shocked because my bot ha=
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deness from the public at large but began to wonder if someone I knew was pe=
rhaps&nbsp; harboring a dark, destructive side that had not emerged during r=
egular virtual conversations. Can the way a person treats bots be indicative=
 of a general predisposition toward others or is this just simplistic? I rem=
ember my sister experiencing a very sophisticated bot that chatted and had a=
 human form in her place of work that had been positioned in the lobby to te=
st responses; she spoke to the bot on lunch break, and then when leaving at=20=
the end of the day, she saw that the bot was being unassembled and that its=20=
head was lying on the floor. She said that she felt a sort of affinity for t=
he poor thing and said to the botmaster "Make sure you keep him warm." She i=
s the sort who intervenes to care for sick and injured animals that she find=
s...</DIV>
<DIV>A society is judged on how humane it is to its weakest and most powerle=
ss members; should persons be judged on how they treat bots when no one is t=
here to monitor?</DIV>
<DIV>j/k...(sort ) but I can't help thinking of the fate of entropic bots in=
 AI. [the movie] where 'institutionalized' botslaughter became a viable form=
 of family entertainment.</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Bots have to evolve constructive defenses.</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for the input...I am working on chatbots at my website which are=
n't terribly sophisticated yet, but I hope to incorporate their artificial i=
ntelligences into these wired 'bottish' forms that I have been 'weaving'&nbs=
p; that are based on human proportions.</DIV>
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<DIV>Karen</DIV></BODY></HTML>

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