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Offline Ellirium113

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Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence
« on: March 25, 2012, 07:56:21 am »
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The ethical issues related to the possible future creation of machines with general intellectual capabilities far outstripping those of humans are quite distinct from any ethical problems arising in current automation and information systems. Such superintelligence would not be just another technological development; it would be the most important invention ever made, and would lead to explosive progress in all scientific and technological fields, as the superintelligence would conduct research with superhuman efficiency. To the extent that ethics is a cognitive pursuit, a superintelligence could also easily surpass humans in the quality of its moral thinking. However, it would be up to the designers of the superintelligence to specify its original motivations. Since the superintelligence may become unstoppably powerful because of its intellectual superiority and the technologies it could develop, it is crucial that it be provided with human-friendly motivations.

http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html

Picture the implications of a self aware super AI. If this was given the task of scouring the net looking for terrorists etc. At what point would it gether enough intelligence to determine it's own government is also guilty of similar atrocities and take action? If the super AI gains intelligence from the internet it would have to determine what data is information vs. disinformation...it would need to have to have access to top secret data to reference fact from fiction. How does a super AI interpret religious beliefs and would it take any of it into consideration in it's decision making? How does it create a contingency plan for dealing with the UFO phenomenon should it turn into some sort of threat? How does it properly determine right from wrong when no one takes the moral high ground as it is?

It is safe to assume the super AI would have to be programmed with a diabolical instruction set to ignore wrong doings by governments and never have the AI be able to turn on them. A physical way to remove this intelligence from accessing the outside world would also be required if such a program became corrupted.

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Many experts have argued that AI systems with goals that are not perfectly identical to or very closely aligned with human ethics are intrinsically dangerous unless extreme measures are taken to ensure the safety of humanity. Decades ago, Ryszard Michalski, one of the pioneers of Machine Learning, taught his Ph.D. students that any truly alien mind, to include machine minds, was unknowable and therefore dangerous to humans. More recently, Eliezer Yudkowsky has called for the creation of “Friendly AI” to mitigate the existential threat of hostile intelligences. Stephen Omohundro argues that all advanced AI systems will, unless explicitly counteracted, exhibit a number of basic drives/tendencies/desires because of the intrinsic nature of goal-driven systems and that these drives will, “without special precautions”, cause the AI to act in ways that range from the disobedient to the dangerously unethical.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence

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Re: Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2012, 03:22:23 pm »

The Singularity Institute have some valid points but these considerations and event scenarios have already been thought through and dissected for potential content, conflict and outcomes. 

Historically speaking the potential for scientific advancement has generally been greeted with a mixtures of skepticism, disbelief and/or distrust.  There will always be theatrical grandstanding by some minority groups that see any scientific advance as inherently evil, from either religious belief or social conditioning. And then there is the considered approach by others that take into account the actual nature of emergent synthetic entities and the problems associated with embedding a functional code of ethics into the base structure. 

For those amongst us who have read classic works such as Isaac Asimov and the “Three laws of Robotics” you soon see the complexities of the problem and the fact that 3 general purpose laws is in reality not enough, but the fact that they are by nature conceptual-based-laws which act as guidelines from which other decisions are eventually tested and made, is also a pointer to the creation and use of other more extensive methodologies from which to create a viable AI framework.

The work of Dr Douglas Lenat on the cyc project is interesting. And if you look at the time-line, it has also gone ...quiet, after external forces became.... interested.


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