However, I think it's a mistake to ignore these issues as you do Matt. When robots become sufficiently intelligent, sentient, it is inevitable for them to want rights. You can't ignore that. ~PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:20:45 -0500 > Subject: Re: [agi] Robots and Slavery > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Piaget Modeler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I asked "What do we give robots when they ask for rights?" I mean, even > > animals have rights (PETA). > > Why shouldn't robots? > > Why would robots ask for rights unless we program them to ask for rights? > > Our goal is to make machines smart enough to do all the work that we > would otherwise need to pay people to do. It means solving hard > problems in language, vision, art, and robotics. It means being able > to predict human behavior, including recognizing human emotions and > knowing their causes and effects. It does not mean building a machine > that would have human emotions or human goals. > > With sufficient technology, computing power, and human knowledge, we > could, if we wanted to, build robots that look and convincingly behave > like humans. We would be tempted to give them human rights. That would > be a mistake. Such robots would compete with us for scarce resources > such as energy, raw materials, and space for living and waste > disposal. These resources will remain scarce even with AI and > nanotechnology. Furthermore, these robots will be stronger than > humans, will know more, think faster, and reproduce faster. They could > be programmed (accidentally, maliciously, or by evolution) not to care > about human rights in such a way that we could not tell until it was > too late. They would know and could take advantage of our ethical > concerns for other humans or things that resemble humans. The fact > that you raise such questions is evidence for this risk. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19999924-5cfde295 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
