[extropy-chat] "3 Laws Unsafe" by the Singularity Institute

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > To: ExI chat list
> > Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] "3 Laws Unsafe" by the
> Singularity
> Institute
> > 
> > I just find this so ironic.  Even their creator
> bashed
> > on them - indeed, he had a long literary career
> > finding all kinds of ways they could come undone. 
> And
> > yet people seriously propose to use them?
> 
> Has anyone ever proposed a practical alternative? 

Why, yes.



And now you probably want some examples.  ;)

Seriously, though, giving human-equivalent AIs the
same rights as humans seems to be at least a start.
(Emphasis on *human-equivalent*: most detailed
portrayals of advanced AIs show them as essentially
thus, all debate as to how they might actually differ
from people yet still appear "sentient" aside.)
Which means they would follow the same morals and laws
as we do.  (Granted, we're not living in a perfect
system either, but at least most of the obvious
loopholes have been closed to tolerable levels.  It
only has to be better than the alternatives one could
practically use, not necessarily perfect.)