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>From: dlh@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Dominik Lukes)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI failures
Message-ID: <9348@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 May 92 19:07:41 GMT
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In article <umpm0INNpv8@early-bird.think.com> moravec@Think.COM (Hans Moravec) writes:
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>Regarding the moral use and disposal of AIs in various circumstances,
>   Subject: Morality and artificial minds
>   Message-ID: <1992May11.170615.44727@spss.com>
>markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
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>> Fortunately there's a simple solution to many of these problems.
>> *Ask them.*  Recent history should make it clear that making unilateral
>> judgments about the rights and desires of another group is highly immoral.
>> Let the AIs tell us the answers to all these questions!
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>When I make an AI, I will be sure to construct it so it wants,
>passionately, to do only and exactly what I want it to do.
>So if you *ask it*, it will say just that.

Your are not the first with this idea, Kilgore Trout had it first, but
it didn't work then. Maybe it depends on how you write your program.
Dominik
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