From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.ecf!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!fs1.mcc.ac.uk!zlsiida Tue May 12 15:49:35 EDT 1992
Article 5472 of comp.ai.philosophy:
Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.ecf!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!fs1.mcc.ac.uk!zlsiida
>From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: re re ai failures
Message-ID: <zlsiida.186@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: 7 May 92 15:50:31 GMT
References: <1992May1.193141.24350@psych.toronto.edu> <zlsiida.144@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <1992May6.163335.8117@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> <1992May6.201601.10052@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Lines: 16
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992May6.201601.10052@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

>  May I suggest that you wait until AI has been achieved until you discuss
>the ethics of pulling the plug.  It all seems quite premature to me.


No it isn't.  That's like saying 'Don't discuss abortion until you're
pregnant'.  Something may be built which will have qualities sufficient
for us to call it an entity, or being, or whatever.  If we're going to
decide pulling the plug is wrong, we'd better decide that before we start
building, otherwise we'll be stuck with what we built for ever.


+--Great Quotes of our Time---------------------------------------------+
| It is not the policy of this department to backstitch corrective code |
+----------------------------------------R J Collins, compilers, UMRCC--+


