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Article 5625 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI and morality
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Date: 13 May 92 17:46:43 GMT
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In article <1992May13.160622.13958@mp.cs.niu.edu> 
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>
>  The RIGHT place to start thing about morality is in some newsgroup
>OTHER THAN comp.ai.philosophy.
>
  I disagree.  The fundamental problem of philosophy is "What
should I do now?".  It applies to AI in numerous ways.  One
is, "Assuming that we *can* build AIs, should we?"; another,
if the answer is yes, is, "What kind should we build?".

  More technically, it is important to think about what
morality is, in order to be able to build it into the
AIs that we (eventually) create.

	-- Bill


