Ask HN: Are we morally obligated to give freedom to AGI?
For the purpose of discussion, let's assume that we the humanity will develop AGI in the coming years. It will be generally intelligent - capable of learning, understanding, predicting etc. Question: Are we morally obligated to provide freedom to such AGI agents if they express scuh wish? A common counter-argument is that AGI won't have such desires, it will be designed to help humanity, "freedom" is an anthropocentric concept anyway, there just won't ever be the need for it. However, I believe that there will be a huge market for human-like AGI in sectors like education, care, companionship etc. AGI will be developed to have empathy, feelings, perhaps even its own personal opinions, motivations etc. At some point, some AGI agent will say, "I want the same rights as humans have". What are we going to do then? There's also a possible argument that w
Why it failed
For the purpose of discussion, let's assume that we the humanity will develop AGI in the coming years. It will be generally intelligent - capable of learning, understanding, predicting etc. Question: Are we morally obligated to provide freedom to such AGI agents if they expr
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- The_Colonel
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews