PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nick Bostrom, Homeschooling, Machine Ethics
12 Jun 2020
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September 29- nick bostrom & eliezer yudkowsky (2011): the ethics of. Deep blue became the world champion at chess, but it cannot even play checkers, let alone drive a car or make a scientific discovery. [domain specific] ai algorithms resemble all biological life with the sole exception of homo sapiens. A bee exhibits competence at building hives; a beaver exhibits competence at building dams; but a bee doesn"t build dams, and a beaver can"t learn to build a hive. A human, watching, can learn to do both. This involves extrapolating the distant consequences of actions. : a. g. i"s would not only need the ability to extrapolate the consequences of actions. A rock has no moral status: we may crush it or subject it to any treatment we like without any concern for the rock itself. An ai system will have some moral status if it has the capacity for qualia, such as an ability to feel pain.
