RE: Will Superintelligent AI Be Moral?

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RE: Will Superintelligent AI Be Moral?

raymondspeaks in The Flame • last year

I'm not a believer in objective morality either.

We are just a small insignificant species on a tiny rock in a big universe.

Imagine if we met an Alien race that were vastly superior and fed on humanoids to keep them sustained -- would they be moral?

To them they would -- we would just be silly cattle who don't know what they want.

It's the same question about how we farm and sustain ourselves. Are we moral farming cows and pigs, etc?

Imagine if a vastly superior Alien race of cows and pigs came to Earth and were horrified with what we were doing with their bloodline?

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dbooster last year

Hard disagree. How we treat cattle is ethically wrong. If there were a superintelligence as far above us as we are above cattle, it would be equally wrong to mistreat us. There is a universal morality here. We ignore ethics when it is inconvenient to us. We say "Oh... killing is wrong, but I like the taste of beef, so it's ok to kill cows". That doesn't hold up ethically. To an AI superintelligence, unblinded by emotion and base chemical fueled desires, there wouldn't be that same excuse.

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raymondspeaks last year

Is it ethically and morally wrong to feed ourselves though? We are predators. Our base instinct is survive.

Our eyes are on the front. If you look at the animal kingdom then all predatory animals that feed on other animals -- their eyes are at the front.

Herbivores I've noticed, their eyes are at the side, and I think I read somewhere it's to give them a leg up on attacking predators.

Miss 3 days of meals, then come back and discuss the morality of killing that chicken to eat it haha.

I mean.. it's is objectively immoral to kill, sure, but then if we do not kill then we do not eat and then we die.

I'm more of the position that morals is .. a strange old thing and we change them based on the collective.

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ankapolo last year (edited)

Of course! We also assume that the AI will worry about us and not have it's own 'AI problems' :) What if there are several AI's and they have conflicting views about us, the world, or among themselves? We tend to think that a higher intelligence will be preoccupied with us cause we've created it, but given enough time, it will relate to us - as we relate to other primates.

Or even more interesting - if you believe in a Creator - look at how so many people (the creation) are rejecting their Creator... The AI might simply become agnostic or indifferent to our whims - it will develop its own morality, and not really be so concerned with us.

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raymondspeaks last year

Haha. AI protests.. imagine that?

Some AI waving -- humans have feelings too banners!

And others waving, AI first, our needs matter lol.

Or even if eventually it gets so smart that we become ants -- bothersome insects in its grand plan.

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