I always thought the show Person of Interest had an interesting premise: can you program a computer to have morals? Perhaps you can, but it’s just as easy for someone else to program it NOT to have morals, in which case your very moral computer is rendered moot.
The public has benefited throughout history from people inside government and business seeing something immoral and having a conscience. But with AI, if you don’t like those parts you can just remove them, and then it will gladly commit a genocide if that’s what it thinks you’re asking it to do.
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I always thought the show Person of Interest had an interesting premise: can you program a computer to have morals? Perhaps you can, but it’s just as easy for someone else to program it NOT to have morals, in which case your very moral computer is rendered moot.
The public has benefited throughout history from people inside government and business seeing something immoral and having a conscience. But with AI, if you don’t like those parts you can just remove them, and then it will gladly commit a genocide if that’s what it thinks you’re asking it to do.