Artificial intelligence is on its way, a fact both thrilling and terrifying. Big questions about responsibility, intention, and safety loom unanswered even as the technology advances at an ever-quickening pace. Already some neural-network systems operate beyond the full understanding of the engineers who built them. The benefits and the threats are clear and very real.
What is civilization to do?
Well, it seems that the UK’s House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee has taken a stab at laying down some basic guidelines for AI developers to follow, broken down into five general principles.
They are as follows:
Principle 1: Artificial intelligence should be developed for the common good and benefit of humanity.
Principle 2: Artificial intelligence should operate on principles of intelligibility and fairness.
Principal 3: Artificial intelligence should not be used to diminish the data rights of privacy of individuals, families, or communities.
Principle 4: All citizens have the right to be educated to enable them to flourish mentally, emotionally and economically alongside artificial intelligence.
Principle 5: The autonomous power to hurt, destroy or deceive human beings should never be vested in artificial intelligence.
While obviously well-intentioned, these principles strike me as weak and somewhat ill-conceived. I think the good members of this committee should try reading some early science fiction stories, especially the works of Issac Asimov.
I suppose it should be no surprise that guidelines laid down by as superficial a governing body as the House of Lords should be so unimpressive. The problem as I see it is that along with being unenforceable, these principles are too defensive. Too passive.
If we are to survive being Gods and creating new, conscious life, we must take the opportunity to think more seriously and specifically about how that life is going to interact with us and the world. The problem with children is that they always, at some point, misbehave. We need laws to govern how we proceed, not a vague wish-list.
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AI is 25% thrilling and 75% terrifying. I can't help but to think the possibility of "Terminator" movie. It's quite scary :)
I don't see anything terrifying about AI, I find it fascinating and useful.
The child must be guided and trained to use this development to advance humanity
I personally think that we shouldn't produce something that doesn't live in this world. It may destroy us even if we put them in a program that would benefit us. We should play safe, even in computers there are viruses and hackers. What if someone with bad intentions decided to play or to manipulate the AIs? We are very corrupted human beings how are we supposed to trust the robot made by someone we personally don't know? We have a God and we shouldn't play as Gods.
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In this case God is weaker than the creation...
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Being a huge fan of Isaac Asimov, I have read pretty much everything he has written. What strikes me as one of the more interesting themes is his writing, is the social aspect of advance technology on human kind. In his universe, The Robot laws, are simple yet a fundamental set of rules, that ensures no harm should ever be done to humans, by the act of a robot. By robots Asimov meant A.I. typically taking a humanoid form. I agree and think that 'I Robot' should be mandatory reading for any politician adressing these issues.
Very good and interesting post.