[ExI] AI citizens

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Several thoughts....

When AI reaches human-level intelligence (not necessarily genius-level
as there are many humans below average intelligence) the problem
arises as to whether they have the right to demand the same civil
rights as humans.

Do AIs need a robot body? Or is a static computer enough?
The problem being that they could copy themselves to millions of
computers and create millions of citizens.

Would they be allowed to vote in elections?
(Obviously any intelligent AI would vote for Trump),  ;)

Would an AI be allowed to stand for election?
Problem - would all the AI citizens automatically vote for the AI?

When the AI reaches more-than-human intelligence it might be tempted
to abolish elections because the AI could run things far better. But
if it does this the AI would need to be prepared for some opposition
from humans. A better method for superhuman AI might be to allow
humans to continue to play with their elections and just route all the
important decisions around them in the background.

Could be interesting........


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