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So many questions about the future. Will there be movements to give legal rights to our virtual creations based on the notion that they are conscious? Will thi
by fragsworth 14y ago
So many questions about the future.
Will there be movements to give legal rights to our virtual creations based on the notion that they are conscious? Will this cause humans to lose control of things as the computer minds grow more powerful?
Will we have laws that force us to imbue emotions in them? So that they can only be created with empathy for human beings?
Will everyone obey these laws when creating computer minds? Will there be black markets of unempathic, cold-hearted superminds that blindly obey their self-serving owners?
Will we all be out of jobs? Will we even need or want money?
- ams6110 14y agoAnd, do we think that if we succeed in recreating the complexity and capability of the human brain with computers, that the computer brains won't be just as error-prone and individually unpredictable as the real thing?
- orangecat 14y agoWell, consider the advantages of running Windows in a VM. (Which admittedly has much fewer ethical issues).
- anonymfus 14y agoBecause human moral is based on emotions, answer to first question will depend on applications of such virtual creations. We have movements to give legal rights to dolphins because they are cute, but we don't have such movements for chimpanzees or parrots because their human-like behavior is inside our uncanny valley. So probably we will have movements to give legal rights for toys and chatbots with AI and no such movements for medical or scientific AI's.
- javert 14y agoMorality is properly based on reason. Many people do use a primitive kind of morality that is based on emotion.
- javert 14y agoInteresting questions, but don't let them trouble you, because I highly doubt there will be strong AI in the next hundred years. (Famous last words...)