RE: Thought experiement# 117. The measure of man.
January 30, 2020 at 6:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2020 at 6:27 pm by WinterHold.)
(January 28, 2020 at 5:02 am)ignoramus Wrote: In the future we create AI. They programmatically "evolve" to become functioning self aware citizens.
Their human rights status is still not clear to me atm.
Like Data from TNG, they are well behaved, unlike Data's brother who went rogue.
Now let's say some of these AI synths "evolved" to become "gay" or show gaylike tendencies.
Or, in other cases, some were drawn to the mystery of Islam, etc
Now, would we, as humans, accept them for being "themselves" and afford them respect, or would we likely assume they are "broken" or "faulty".
You know, like a dodgy toaster from Walmart.
What I'm asking is: is our human selfish naturally xenophobic chimp gene still going to play the same old game?
You know, The same game where many religious hide their prejudices and xenophobias behind the veil of the holy texts
Or maybe, in like 45 million years, we may evolve past it!
You neglected a very important rule in the development of an AI : the "rules" themselves that act as the context borders of the AI.
An AI is a mere huge network of conditional statements put by the programmer behind it; so the resulting program would never act "gay" unless the programmer allows it to.
The synth though can choose. I won't blame another "synth" for reminding the synth who chose to act gay about the original laws the programmer put. But I would indeed blame a synth who chose the rule of acting gay; especially if the programmer put warning signs.
