This content originally appeared on Level Up Coding - Medium and was authored by A.P. Bird
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
Yes, we both can. But it’s not that easy.
There is no right way to live
There aren’t absolute truths in ethics. For example, if it’s the wish of a group of people to value “fun” instead of “justice”, resulting in criminals and even innocent people being thrown out of a city by big catapults, still, we couldn’t say these people are ethically wrong, since it was their desire to just have fun and not justice (in any sense).
Maybe we can’t be ethical but what about robots?
Robots only do what they are programmed to do. They are as devoted as dogs but with fewer biological characteristics like emotions and other animal-like traits. Additionally, robots are far from completely free. They are exactly as bad as we programmed them to be. It is never their fault. They are the most innocent children (one we cannot blame for its sins). The only one we can blame is its creators.
So, robots can, it’s true, combine the most harmonious qualities: intelligence, precision, and empathy, but only if we allow them to. Humans, on the other hand, have greater freedom, but they are also more dangerous. Which of the two would you prefer to live with?
We should give machines more and more power, but mostly the power to think.
Imagine a world in which everyone has an AI, and they talk daily about everything, from art to mathematics, social studies, etc. This AI would be private, but when people let their AI talk to each other’s AI at the result of that robot conversation, the machines would conclude debates on, for example, if Leibniz was right about us living in the “best of all possible worlds.” Surely if people could exercise thinking with the help of artificial intelligences, and vice versa, there would be a new Age of Enlightenment.
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This content originally appeared on Level Up Coding - Medium and was authored by A.P. Bird
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