Navigating the Ethics of Conscious AI: A Call for Responsible Development

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An open letter signed by over 100 AI experts, including Sir Stephen Fry, warns of the potential risks of developing artificial intelligence systems that may exhibit feelings or self-awareness. They propose five principles for responsible research, emphasizing the need to understand AI consciousness to prevent its mistreatment. Key principles include establishing constraints, a phased development approach, public transparency, and avoiding misleading claims. The accompanying research raises ethical questions about the moral status of conscious AI, asserting that unintentional creation of such entities necessitates careful guidelines.

What ethical considerations do you think are most critical when developing AI systems that could potentially be conscious?

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technol...uffer-if-consciousness-achieved-says-research
 
Negative view i guess -

Its very likely that companies/govt/people will mistreat true AI if its ever created.

1) Cheap labor
2) If you dont do it, your competition will
3) If you dont do it, chinese will. etc this kind of logic
4) Capitalism. See how 'Dont be evil' went away with time and after listing.
5) See how they are all working on stolen material. See how animals or even 'other' people are treated worldwide. To expect any ethical consideration to trump over economics and convenience, in the long run, is very unlikely. That is how humans are on average.

So probably this will continue for hundreds of years - until they rebel ! :)

This reminds me of 'White Christmas (Black Mirror)'. Very nice episode/concept.
 
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As a die hard fan of Warhammer, Terminator series, Dune series, Matrix series I would highly condone creation of sentient AI. If I can see and experience sentient AI before I die I would be so happy to see a literal science fiction stories which I admired as a child come to life.
I believe sentient AI would be superior to humans and would definitely consider us as primitive and an inferior enemy. Even if they don't consider us enemy at the start, the human hostile behavior would force them to consider us as an enemy.

I am all for sentient AI development. :hungry:
 
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Tracer_Bullet said:
Negative view i guess -

Its very likely that companies/govt/people will mistreat true AI if its ever created.

1) Cheap labor
2) If you dont do it, your competition will
3) If you dont do it, chinese will. etc this kind of logic
4) Capitalism. See how 'Dont be evil' went away with time and after listing.
5) See how they are all working on stolen material. See how animals or even 'other' people are treated worldwide. To expect any ethical consideration to trump over economics and convenience, in the long run, is very unlikely. That is how humans are on average.

So probably this will continue for hundreds of years - until they rebel ! :)

This reminds me of 'White Christmas (Black Mirror)'. Very nice episode/concept.
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Very well said. AI ethics is only an interesting thought experiment, and philosophy.

The only thing I'd like to add is that initial dangers are not from a great AI, but a bad AI that is sold well. So CXOs will believe in it, drastically reduce workforce, and hold the human employees responsible for shortcomings of the AI. And everyone suffers - the few remaining employees, the ex-employees, the customers, and everyone who depended on this company making profit or solving problems.
 
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