The New Rules of Robot/Human Society

 

Key sentences:

– It’s important to think who we are as humans and how we develop as a society.
– In the ancient time we used to believe that being moral was to transcend all your emotional responses and come up with the perfect analysis. But actually it offers (more things to play): our ability to read the emotions of others; eye consciousness; our understandings of habits and rituals and the meaning of gesturesIt’s not clear how we get that kind of understanding or appreciation into these systems.
– They may be able to win the game of Jeopardy and the danger of that is that it will make us liable to attribute levels or kind of intelligence to them that they do not have. And may lead to situations when we become increasingly reliant on them managing tools that they won’t really know how to manage when that idiosyncratic truly dangerous situation arise.
– It becomes much more easy to distance yourself from the responsibility and I think in the case of autonomous systems it’s a really big question because if these things accidentally kill people or commit something which if it was done by a human we would consider a war crime, now it’s being done by a machine so is that just a technological or a war crime.