Morality of Artificial Intelligence

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I am saying AI is not dangerous. People who use them are.
 
Unless, of course, a robot is making decisions based on some random seed that limits the human’s ability to understand to downstream ramifications
 
Robot can be designed any how. It is human’s decision how to design it. And it’s human law to regulate it
 
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Robot can be designed any how. It is human’s decision how to design it. And it’s human law to regulate it
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Speaking of which, does anyone here watch Battlebots? It’s on Discovery Channel
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I have not watched that one yet. Probably I will
 
Really reminds me of the “Moral Machine”, where you’re playing a simulation of being in these self driving cars, and you have two choices in the moment which vary each example and results with someone being sacrificed to save a life of another (or yourself). I played it once and it’s interesting, a scary thought, but interesting.
 
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I am sure it is interesting.

AI use big data to predict/ make decision.
The car use AI probably with calculation and big data as well.

There are robots who use our privacy data.
For example our travel pattern, buying pattern, human behaviors can be predicted. The use of big data must protect people’s privacy.
 
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AI morality is a fascinating (scary?) topic. Take self-driving cars as an example. If there’s an imminent accident, should the car veer to one side and hit a pedestrian or to the other and hit a school bus full or children. Should the utilitarian ‘good of the whole over good of the few’ trump?

What if one decision helps more people, but is likely to hurt the passengers in the car? A human driver might prioritize his/her own family over the lives of unknown strangers (even if the number of people harmed is potentially greater).

Moral underpinning Of the programmers may well influence outcomes. What if one could choose which AI morality they would like to prioritize. Who would prioritize unknown strangers over their own family?
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Let’s add one more complication: bus is big and heavy, thus, under certain conditions (at specific speed), hitting a bus is likely to end in no deaths, while hitting a pedestrian would probably kill him. But at higher speed hitting the bus would result in more deaths.

Also, as someone said (I failed to find that post), finding out if a bus is full is hard, if at all possible, given what information is realistically available to AI.

Therefore, the solution that is going to be chosen is probably something like “If collision is inevitable, choose the collision where the speed is lowest.”.

Not a very exciting option, but relatively easy to implement and working well in most cases.
 
Artificial Intelligence will have no morality. They are just devices.
 
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Artificial Intelligence will have no morality. They are just devices.
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Devices designed by humans.

AI can be useful, so long human privacy is respected. For example spying drones track a person location. If only our handphones are preset to no location tracking, these drones cannot track you. It can still use satelite to tell rough location but not precise location.

Our handphones should be made “un-hackable” by making each phone encrypted end to end on each signals including screen, keyboard, and cached memory.

Buy and selling peoples data must be made illegal
 
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Good luck with that. Every communication device is monitored. Only the government and maybe a few official organizations have un-hackable phones. More data breaches are occurring.
 
But this situation can be impoved. China do not have the best handphone technology. They also lack of encryption technology. They believe in selling people’s data.

This should be regulated world wide. Not only China.

In business, everything is competition. Example where I live now, robo calling becomes less because gov regulate against 1. robocalls and 2. companies to safeguard their customer’s dataprivacy. Right after that ruling, I began to receive calls from other countries. I believe that these are the same robo calls that has been calling me, but now they are doing it from outside the country since regulation. Fortunately thanks to the no 2 ruling, it finally die down too, but not completely.

My point is if you regulate it only in your country, business people (or, even gov people) goes to other countries that has no regulation (for example china & rusia) to hack local people’s data. I mean, what else they can do? In business (or even defense), it is about winning.

Non hackable phones, i am sure many people need it now, and even more in the future, where we have more AI than now.

AI itself is neutral. Just like fire, it can be used for good purpose or bad.

In fact, AI is useful specifically for security because less human eyes on the sensitive information, so long it is kept that way by encryption. Similar to our whatsapp messages are encrypted so no human eyes can tap it in between.
 
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Morality won’t stop self driving cars, rather a lot of interesting committees will be staffed with highly paid people with Philosophy degrees and will be making a document for some engineers to implement. If the overall crash rate goes down, the people will make it law regardless of what we say here on this forum.
 
Lifeisbeautiful3 said:
If there’s an imminent accident, should the car veer to one side and hit a pedestrian or to the other and hit a school bus full or children. Should the utilitarian ‘good of the whole over good of the few’ trump?
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To sacrifice the few in order to safe many is immoral.

I do not believe AI ethics for self driving vehicle is about this. Self driving vehicles can be made with sensors that minimize coillision. Sure research to make it work is needed. So thorough gadget trials-- which include “smart controllers using AI”-- until satisfactorily proven vehicle is safe and ready for passangers and safe for pedestrians.

So there will be no need to leave such difficult moral dilemma to the AI. The AI is designed to control/ read signals from other vehicles in a way that coillisions avoided, rather than choosing which one it choose to collide to.

The Ethics for self driving vehicle is about how to conceal the privacy of the passangers from irrelevant humans / human institutions that may monitor them remotely, while driving (which need to broadcast its precise location to other self driving cars near it and probably to the satelite too).
 
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It somehow feels different (to me) when a computer is ‘programmed’ to do something - more of a ‘choice’ than an accident.
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It is different.
It is one thing to know you are human and may not be able to process everything at once.
It is quite another to plan in advance the decision to end a life.
 
francisca.chapter3 said:
So there will be no need to leave such difficult moral dilemma to the AI. The AI is designed to control/ read signals from other vehicles in a way that coillisions avoided, rather than choosing which one it choose to collide to.
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The no-win scenario is alive and well. No amount of programming is going to circumvent it. There will come a time when the AI will have to decide what the least harm is.
My niece encountered it last week.
A truck ran a stop sign.
She had a choice. Swerve right and hit the car behind the truck. Swerve left and run off the road into a ditch of unknown depth. Hit straight on and hurt the back seat passenger.

I am not certain an AI has any business making this type of decision.
 
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I am not certain an AI has any business making this type of decision.
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I certainly hope it does not.

Well, I prefer my husband drive me around for now 🙂
 
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vz71 said:
I am not certain an AI has any business making this type of decision.
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If you would read up on the test results, you would see that the AI-s are much more reliable than the human drivers. When all cars will be driven by AI-s and they will all access the same central cloud database, where every car reports its position, speed and destination, along with the weather data, the road conditions, there will be no accidents. Technical errors can occur, but I will trust my life on AI-s rather than humans.

AI-s can never cease to pay attention, can never get sleepy, can never get distracted by phone calls.

And I hope that this scenario will be implemented as soon as possible. If some humans still wish to drive, let them have access to special roads, where they can put the pedal to the metal, and enjoy it to their heart’s desire.

This Frankenstein complex will disappear soon, I hope.
 
Self-driving cars have no business on the roads. They are unsophisticated and too costly to produce. Based on early military autonomous ground vehicles, safety is and will be sacrificed when put on the roads.
 
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