Reading articles comparing AIs and I can't help think we're just comparing the effectiveness of two individuals and who we want to hire of the two after they performed a coding interview.
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Yes? I didn't get the point you're making here.
Feels humanising.
reminds me of this fanciful idea I had several years back: rights-responsibility symmetry applied to silicon "entities". My idea was, if you trust an AI to drive your kids to school, you're giving them huge responsibility for protecting human life, then they have to be accorded the same rights as a human bus driver. Of course "same" here is a bit confusing, but "right to life" for an AI, I could imagine, will become a thing, eventually. (obv. you're talking about a much smaller version of this, but, sure you *are* hiring a worker, here; you even have to pay for their time, right?)
What I read here is that a machine should be afforded the right to protect itself which might contradict its directive of protecting the children.
When a person protects children by risking their selves, it is called heroism. It is not expected. But for a machine, I think it should be expected.
Back to Asimov :)
To answer your last message less flippantly: indeed, even *negative* rights have some consequences of other "rights-holders" around you. in the bus scenario, it's a bit different than in the "i have the right to defend my property against invaders" scenario. while a bus driver's right to life usually doesn't conflict with the passengers' right to life, you could imagine such cases. but that that conflict exists is why I think this is actually more interesting than Asimov's take. Asimov (as you can see from Foundation) was fascinated with the idea that the end point of science was perfect algorithmic control of events, but I think the future's somehow stranger than he envisaged. (TLDR I don't have an answer, I just think it's an interesting tension that's going to exist).
Yeah, I read his laws again, there's a zeroth law: don't cause and don't allow the harm of humanity.
Yet that is the very thing that would lead to a terrible distopia IMO.