RE: Machine Intelligence and Human Ethics
May 28, 2019 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2019 at 10:39 am by Anomalocaris.)
(May 27, 2019 at 11:11 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: If we have few qualms about killing a chimpanzee, it's unclear where the ethics to deny killing or sacrificing an intelligence that isn't human would come from.
In practice, Ethics do not guide our actions. Rather ethics are used to justify our actions to, and enlist support from, those who thinks ethics ought to guide our actions.
Chimpanzee sentience and intelligence are fait accomplis incidental to chimp’s perceived role in our world as far as most of us are concerned. So as always where it is too much trouble we feel free to ignore those principles by which we flatter ourselves in other areas.
Machine sentience and intelligence would likely be designed to be central to machine’s roles in our world. So not accommodating the sentient wishes that may emerge may involve punishing consequences. So should machine sentience and intelligence with emergent sentient wishes become fait accompli, we may find high minded principles suitable to enlist into the services of getting the laggards onboard with the process of avoiding those consequences.
