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| Topic | If we had self-aware robots, would you be for or against enslaving them? |
| Yellow 08/31/17 4:35:57 AM #39: | Why would robots even desire human rights and compassion unless we teach them to want those things? They wouldn't. You'd have to be seriously irresponsible to create an AI that actually has the power to hurt us combined with the desire to do that. The main real way it could happen is in a virus form. It wouldn't be too hard either. You make one AI that knows how to write code and modify itself, next thing you know it's figuring out every exploit there is and living on computers like a literal technological disease. It will happen, but will it want to destroy us? Maybe it'll just want to live on our computers. Last I checked, diseases are reckless but they tend to not want to enslave or destroy humanity as they actually depend on humanity (or living things) to survive. What other way could it possibly happen? The "virus" that is somehow infused with human desire to take over the physical world takes over a manufacturing plant and manufactures an army by themselves while we just let that happen? Let's be realistic. There would have to be a serious power vacuum combined with some seriously reckless usage of valuable resources. People would have to do it on purpose. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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