<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 26, 2016, at 9:03 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:18 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><<a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4122" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4122</a>><br>
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Serious point though.<br>
If we teach AI about ethical behaviour (for our own safety) what do we<br>
expect the AI to do when it sees humans behaving unethically (to a<br>
greater or lesser extent)?<br>
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Can a totally ethical AI even operate successfully among humans?<br>
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BillK<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​Would you write a code for an AI that told it to compare humans and AIs? Do you really want to confuse it? Put an AI in charge of censorship and there goes civilization as we know it.</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Why would it be ethical to have censorship in the first place? It's like saying "Put an AI in charge of slavery..."<br><br><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>