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Zero Powers <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:zero.powers@gmail.com"><zero.powers@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br>
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decisions in the hands of AI strikes me as dystopian. An
unstated, yet integral, aspect of human notions of justice is
the concept of empathy. Any adjudicative ruling made by an agent
which has no ability to empathize with the parties and witnesses
will never feel like justice to us, however sound the ruling
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William Flynn Wallace <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com"><foozler83@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br>
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> <span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">final
decisions, esp. in criminal cases, belong to people.<br>
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</span>There's only so much that a system can do without being
'conscious' (in the sense that we think of ourselves as conscious -
having theory of mind, being self-reflective, etc.). If an AI is
created that's able to function as a member of society, it will need
to have these things, so empathy will be within its capabilities.<br>
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There will be a point at which we have to include certain AI systems
in the definition of 'people', and ultimately, of course, they will
have far more of whatever it is that makes people people, than any
original human being could ever have. I expect that any quality or
ability that you can attribute to humans, will be possessed by
super-intelligent, super-conscious AIs, in spades, plus ones that we
don't have and probably can't even imagine.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc
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