30 | Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Differences Between Everyday Life and War
I think it's a little bit too much to demand of our AI systems, that they be articulate moral philosophers as long as they seem to be doing mostly the right things. And so contractarianism does make predictions about this. If you could quantify the kind of harm being done by that threatening agent, that enemy agent, and you could say, usually that neutralizing the threat is better than just say killing the agent,. Butneutralizing the threat would be the best of all possible outcomes. You could imagine security robots and in the extreme military robots being designed with their goal of neutralizing enemies and neutralizing threats. I think that would be the maximum approach to it.
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