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From: mcvos@cs.vu.nl (Vos MC)
Subject: Re: Opinions about A.I. in society
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Paulo Jose Matos Lopes Pinto - Aluno Eng. Informatica (pjmlp@students.fct.unl.pt) wrote:
:     I would like to get some opinions about using A.I. in society, for
: example :

:     a) If we succed in creating a machine, a robot for example, and if he is
: capable of thinking and acting like a human, what are his civil rights,
: could we give them to him ?

Should we build robots that act just like normal humans? Ofcourse it's
immensely interesting from a scientific point of view, but what should
society do with it? We already have way too many humans on this planet,
so why should we build even more?

I think it'd be a much better idea to let humans do what humans are
good at, and let machines do what machines are good at. This way you'd
get a kind of symbiosis that works better that either part on its own.

Which leads to an answer to this question:

:     c) What about using A.I. systems (neural networks, expert systems, etc)
: to replace hummans in their work, such as doctors?

AI systems should replace humans, but help them. Machines can help a
doctor to make a good diagnosis, and the doctor decides if it's a
good diagnosis. Besides, there is some evidence that humans heal better
when they feel they are getting real attention from a doctor, so
the human doctor would still be necessary for the contact with the
patient (something humans are much better at than machines).


Regards,
mcv.							<><
