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If I build a gun mount, that uses a basic computer vision algorithm to identify people out a window. It then randomly select a target - “true” random so no clai
by olliej 5y ago
If I build a gun mount, that uses a basic computer vision algorithm to identify people out a window. It then randomly select a target - “true” random so no claims I set a seed - and then shoots them.
Do you think there is an argument that I should not be responsible?
If “random” is too independent, or you want it to be systematic, we could do something else:
* the person with the highest “red hat” score according to a 20 year old copy of opencv
Or we could do something modern and “AI” and give it a completely random neural net that’s super deep and has three outputs: angle, pitch, and whether to pull the trigger.
Or we could go all out and just replace this hypothetical machine that acts like an independent person with the next best thing: a regular human.
If a government, or a terrorist group, gives a group of people (or soldiers) a bunch of weapons and drops them off in a city, and they start shooting, do you think that the government would be responsible?
- wruza 5y agoThat’s easy. Your intent was for it to maybe shoot someone, and that is a criminal intent. If you had no such intent, it’s either accidental murder or no guilt (e.g. you built a robot that takes a heap of non-classy trash and throws it into a grinder; an intruder was grabbed by it accidentally because they weren’t well-dressed). This discussion mistakes existing policies as some objective base, but it’s the other way round.