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>From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
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Subject: Re: A.I. failures
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Date: 8 May 92 09:26:39 GMT
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In article <6MAY199218170584@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> jones@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jones) writes:

>Mr. Collins suggested that we may consider it OK to kill an artificially

Again, that isn't my name, that's the guy who made the Great Quote (and
I've got a new quote in today, and I'm not Niels Bohr either!)



>intelligent person because he/she is of a different species from us.  I
>suggest that this may not fly in a real case.  If we kill an artificial
>three year old boy, his parents will suffer agonies of grief, assuming they
>love him.  (If they don't, the whole project is in *real* trouble.)

Parents?  This is an AI construct, equivalent in some sense to a 3yr old.
Do you mean its constructor?  


>Tom

>(All opinions my own.)

+--Great Quotes of our Time---------------------------------------------+
|        Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.        |
+--------------------------------------------------------Niels Bohr-----+


