You claimed that your starting question was naive, so allow me to respond with similar naivete:
If AI become smart enough to perform behaviors that we consider potentially threatening or beyond our control, aren’t they really artificial life?
As such, and imbued with consciousness equal to or greater than our own, don’t we consider them to have rights or legal protections or freedoms?
If they did, they would also be subject to legal restrictions on their behavior, in similar fashion to human beings. However, with additional freedoms, those legal restrictions would be inadequate to punish their behavior. As a consequence, we face an ethical challenge in how we integrate such life into our society. We don’t want to be unfair, but we prefer them as servants than as equals or superiors.
The continued development of AI could reflect techno-utopianism, or technological determinism (marketing and memes), leading everyone to a condition in which the actual motives of people paying for it all are really poorly thought out and short-term, but the larger vision looks more attractive than it is.
You claimed that your starting question was naive, so allow me to respond with similar naivete:
If AI become smart enough to perform behaviors that we consider potentially threatening or beyond our control, aren’t they really artificial life?
As such, and imbued with consciousness equal to or greater than our own, don’t we consider them to have rights or legal protections or freedoms?
If they did, they would also be subject to legal restrictions on their behavior, in similar fashion to human beings. However, with additional freedoms, those legal restrictions would be inadequate to punish their behavior. As a consequence, we face an ethical challenge in how we integrate such life into our society. We don’t want to be unfair, but we prefer them as servants than as equals or superiors.
The continued development of AI could reflect techno-utopianism, or technological determinism (marketing and memes), leading everyone to a condition in which the actual motives of people paying for it all are really poorly thought out and short-term, but the larger vision looks more attractive than it is.