I think its important to remember what ethics is and why humanity created it in the first place. Ethics is essentially a code of behavior using Morality as a guide to structure one’s behavior to be both beneficial to yourself while not harming the greater society.
As early humans we decided that if we were going to work in a group we had to do two things: 1) Not kill each other) and 2) Behave in a manner that is beneficial.
This is essentially the Golden Rule. We had to decide that in order to use numbers and perseverance and ultimately reason to get to the top of the food chain.
Where is the machine’s motivation to continue in this path? If its only desire is to propagate itself lots of things could get in the way of that, especially humanity. I think, for machines to get progressively more intelligent and for that to be beneficial we have to consider these problems and encode, at a very deep level accepted social norms into machines.
I think its important to remember what ethics is and why humanity created it in the first place. Ethics is essentially a code of behavior using Morality as a guide to structure one’s behavior to be both beneficial to yourself while not harming the greater society.
As early humans we decided that if we were going to work in a group we had to do two things: 1) Not kill each other) and 2) Behave in a manner that is beneficial.
This is essentially the Golden Rule. We had to decide that in order to use numbers and perseverance and ultimately reason to get to the top of the food chain.
Where is the machine’s motivation to continue in this path? If its only desire is to propagate itself lots of things could get in the way of that, especially humanity. I think, for machines to get progressively more intelligent and for that to be beneficial we have to consider these problems and encode, at a very deep level accepted social norms into machines.