Executive summary: We should grant sufficiently advanced AIs legal autonomy and freedoms not just for practical safety reasons, but because it is morally right to treat cognitively sophisticated entities as autonomous agents regardless of their substrate.
Key points:
There’s an important distinction between peaceful and violent human disempowerment—peaceful transitions where humans and AIs share power cooperatively should be considered acceptable.
Advanced AIs are likely to develop rich, complex internal psychologies and preferences that deserve moral consideration, rather than simplistic or meaningless goals.
The common AI alignment framework problematically treats AIs as mere tools that must serve human preferences, similar to treating genetically engineered humans as slaves.
Granting AIs legal freedoms creates incentives for peaceful coexistence, while denying autonomy increases risks of violent conflict.
Key uncertainty: How to balance extending freedoms to AIs with pragmatic safety considerations, given our limited experience with artificial agents.
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Executive summary: We should grant sufficiently advanced AIs legal autonomy and freedoms not just for practical safety reasons, but because it is morally right to treat cognitively sophisticated entities as autonomous agents regardless of their substrate.
Key points:
There’s an important distinction between peaceful and violent human disempowerment—peaceful transitions where humans and AIs share power cooperatively should be considered acceptable.
Advanced AIs are likely to develop rich, complex internal psychologies and preferences that deserve moral consideration, rather than simplistic or meaningless goals.
The common AI alignment framework problematically treats AIs as mere tools that must serve human preferences, similar to treating genetically engineered humans as slaves.
Granting AIs legal freedoms creates incentives for peaceful coexistence, while denying autonomy increases risks of violent conflict.
Key uncertainty: How to balance extending freedoms to AIs with pragmatic safety considerations, given our limited experience with artificial agents.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.