Yes, attitude makes a big difference. I wrote to Ray Kurzweil more than once suggesting how AI developed out of commercial (or military) competition is far risk

Yes, attitude makes a big difference. I wrote to Ray Kurzweil more than once suggesting how AI developed out of commercial (or military) competition is far riskier than AI developed out of a desire for friends and partners (e.g. Alife Kohn and "The Case Against Competition") -- even if both create risks. Someone I sent copies of those emails posted them online here: http://heybryan.org/fernhout/ http://heybryan.org/fernhout/ On your theme about the rights of digital beings (maybe even for ourselves if we are simulations): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_artificial_intelligence#Robot_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_artificial_intellige...