From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 19:36:31 MDT
Samantha Atkins hazards,
> If the AI is in fact as much of an autonomous intelligent being as you
> yourself are then deletion of the AI is just as much an execution/murder
> as is the same act performed on you or I.
The difference is that no one in any position of power is prepared to grant
voting rights to an AI, let alone full status as an entity protected by laws
against murder. If we can draft young men and send them to their death in combat
during wartime, we surely will not flinch at deleting a recalcitrant AI.
> If we insist on treating
> beings as bright and adaptive as ourselves as things that will
> percipitate a human-AI conflict very quickly.
On the contrary, if we treat AIs as disposable and expendable, that will insure
their compliance and user friendliness (just as similar treatment of GIs insures
their obedience and compliance). As a female, you may have insufficient
appreciation for the "do or die" situation of the male of the species.
--J. R.
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to
make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being
can fight and never stop fighting." -e.e. cummings
[Amara Graps does it again]
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