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I think you're misunderstanding ilaksh's point. Yes, knowledge is social potential energy. The potential energy lacks the moral quality until it is implemente
by pharrington 11y ago
I think you're misunderstanding
ilaksh's point. Yes, knowledge is social potential energy. The potential energy lacks the moral quality until it is implemented for a purpose by a person in society. I, as the person who knows how to build the killer robot, have a moral obligation to not build the killer robot.
The criminal in this scenario is the government.
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoI don't think this is a valid argument when it comes to AI. Sure you can say I'm not going to be the one who builds that missile or that gun. But a killer robot is but a thin layer on top of a general AI or on top of a variety of specialised AI functions. The more general the AI becomes, the more "dual use" it is necessarily going to be. In other words, should we not build intelligent robots because someone might give them a gun to make them killer robots?
- pharrington 11y agoI'm imagining that in the case of AI general enough to be trained for any arbitrary task, but not general or physically able enough to choose its own tasks, you still need technologists to teach the warfarers how to install and train the AI. So in that case, build the AI; don't turn it into a killer robot. If it doesn't take expertise to train the AI though, the goose was cooked a long time ago.