[extropy-chat] MP3000s

[kevinfreels.com]

Of course, you have to wonder, what would an AI want? People want money to
buy things and go places and to provide food and shelter. Assuming that an
AI would already have shelter and food (energy) and be able to travel
anywhere at light-speed, what else could you pay them?

I also wonder if they wouldn;t quickly committ suicide after becoming
conscious.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Walker" <mark at permanentend.org>
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] MP3000s


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "kevinfreels.com" <
>
> >Well of course, the whole star wars saga is full of them. Of course,
people
> >can be had as slaves as well. >
>
> Well, the worry is that human-level robots are persons as well, unless you
> mean by 'person' that persons are necessarily biological beings. It may be
> that in the Star Wars saga they do not discriminate against human-level
> intelligent robots because humans can be slaves as well. But are own
> reaction to the movies is interesting. I wonder how we would feel about
Luke
> Skywalker in the first movie (Episode III) if he and his family were
buying
> human slaves rather than robot slaves? My guess is that our reaction would
> be quite different, which shows our prejudice: our substratism. I hope
> people think this through morally before people invest a huge amount of
> money in developing AI. That is, there may well be an expectation that
> developing human level AI ought to reap some financial benefits, but
unless
> we reintroduce slavery it is difficult to see how this will be assured.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> Dr. Mark Walker
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