Another rather innocent proposal is simply unplugging the machine when we sense danger. Is this even possible – can you put the evil back into the Pandora’s box? There will be so many ways of machine communication at levels that we are even unconscious with – radio waves, digital signals, code manipulation etc. We certainly don't have the ability to lock the super intelligence up forever.
Therefore, the real regulation shall lie in the program of artificial intelligence, or, more precisely, in the part of the program called “morality”.
Science fiction author Issac Asimov developed the Three Laws of Robotics10 in his 1942 short story
Runaround, quoted below.
1. “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as …show more content…
Therefore, Asimov’s principles, though seemingly reasonable in his literary context, are unsatisfactory for future generation to adopt.
The idea of programming machines with a complete moral system is also unrealistic since there is
Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM
never such a thing as a complete set of moral code in human society. Each one of us has different modes of thinking and thus different solutions when faced with ethical dilemmas. However, the whole human race does share something in common e.g. cheating is bad and helping others is good. And as mentioned before, our goal is never to build a program that includes every single detail of operation. Instead, we are creating a learning
Therefore, the real regulation shall lie in the program of artificial intelligence, or, more precisely, in the part of the program called “morality”.
Science fiction author Issac Asimov developed the Three Laws of Robotics10 in his 1942 short story
Runaround, quoted below.
1. “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as …show more content…
Therefore, Asimov’s principles, though seemingly reasonable in his literary context, are unsatisfactory for future generation to adopt.
The idea of programming machines with a complete moral system is also unrealistic since there is
Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM
never such a thing as a complete set of moral code in human society. Each one of us has different modes of thinking and thus different solutions when faced with ethical dilemmas. However, the whole human race does share something in common e.g. cheating is bad and helping others is good. And as mentioned before, our goal is never to build a program that includes every single detail of operation. Instead, we are creating a learning