What if Robots need to be educated? According to numerous leading technologists and scientists (the most famous ones being Stephen Hawking, Sam Altman, Elon Musk) Artificial General Intelligence poses a huge threat to humanity. With the invention of a superintelligent machine, that is able to self-improve and build even more intelligent machines (that then would by far surpass human intellect), it is not unlikely that an intelligence-explosion happens in the course of the 21st century, triggering technological singularity. Although machines don't (yet) have intentions of their own, they thrive towards efficiency. What if the way to reach this efficiency is not in line with the goals of humanity, or just in line with the goals of very few people? In order to build friendly AI rather than unfriendly AI (which might win the competition because it is likely to be easier, faster and cheaper to do) it will be crucially important to develop machine ethics. Already in 1942 Isaac Asmiov proposed three laws of robotics: 1.: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2.: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3.: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. What a complex ethic code has to contain, how it could be implemented and if friendly AI would stay friendly are questions we rather urgently need to find an answer to. https://futureoflife.org/2017/08/29/friendly-ai-aligning-goals/ https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1411/1411.1373.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity #flagsofutopia #utopia #utopianidea #flag #concept #idea #whatif #ai #agi #technologicalsingularity #asimov #futureoflife #robotics #machineethics
