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Peter Railton on AI and Ethics

Philosophy Bites

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The on Switch of a I Systems

Can you have a hierarchy of machines when you have the moral machine at the top that then shuts down the ones which are not behaving? Well, there's a big and interesting literature on this question of the off switch a i systems. So suppose we give a machine a particular goal. One condition of achieving most goals is that the machine continued to exist. And so therefore the machine gets a sub goal of protecting its own existence. Now how might it do that if were tryed to shut it off? Well, it might anticipate when we would shut it off, or look for signs of that, and replicate itself. It has access to web, let's say, and it puts replicas

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