(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!
This is basically a Foucault-style question: who decides what is sane? what is normal? What ideology goes into these decisions?
In the case of AI, I'd say the game of hiding prejudices and xenophobia would come from the programmers and, possibly, the people who decided to shut off the machine. It's likely that computer programmers who haven't examined their own ideologies would consider these to be so normal that putting them into the AI would go without saying.
I read somewhere (I can't say it's true for sure) that Amazon warehouses are organized by AI to maximize efficiency. Whereas you or I might put all the books on one side and all the kitchen ware on another, the AI puts unrelated objects side by side, in a system which humans can't understand. It works, but only the computer understands it.
So if the whole AI thing happens at a bigger scale, it seems likely that they would reach conclusions which don't make sense to us. If by some crazy chance an AI did conclude that Islam is best, shutting it off would merely be a prejudice or xenophobic decision on our part, which possibly results from not understanding the computer.
