Tuesday, October 28, 2014
some important questions for the A I folks
Should combat drones follow the rule ‘minimum damage for maximum results’? Who’s to say what constitutes damage, or, for that matter, results? Should a robot fire on a military target if civilians are nearby? Should soldiers leave a robot behind to guard captured enemies, and should it fire on prisoners if they try to escape? How can it tell the difference between an escape attempt and, say, the frenzy of a seizure? Should a driverless car swerve to avoid pedestrians even if it puts the car into oncoming traffic? Should robots be programmed to lie to enemies? What about to lie to civilians to avoid panic? Which victim should a search and rescue robot first evacuate?
I am optimistic that programs could be developed that are sophisticated enough to make good ‘decisions’ most of the time. I confess, however, that I’m very worried about who will be chosen to write the programs.
Christian Brugger
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3 comments:
science fiction is becoming reality
it's sort of scary
technologies are developing so rapidly
a part of me is glad that i'll only be around for another 30 years or so
that part of me wants to pawn off responsibility for dealing with ethical issues of technology onto the next generation
its cowardly
i know
i'm not sure i would want to live in the future
....I'm sort of thinking that this mentality of hyper-organized mechanical cognition ( if we can indeed call it cognition ) has already made its stand...and people like it like children like toys
in C O S some of the young people resort to instant acquisition of lyrics or info quite often...its part of the scene I cannot deny it
there is this constant message that asserts...the future is already here...it allows us to completely forget the past I guess
on to the next thing
o
what's that vibrating in my pocket....
....jh
yeah
i was amazed when john & i
were at collegeville
and the three of us would be singing
for some of the other scholars
and then someone would pull out
their smart phone
and be so proud that they had found the same song on the internet
and were showing it off to everyone
i never quite understood that
was it their way of feeling
like they were participating?
or were they trying to say
look now i've found it
you guys don't need to play it anymore
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