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Whenever a person wants to present themselves as an industry expert, one credible approach is to paint a shining picture of future technology and what people can expect from hopeful visions of things to come. One potential that has long bothered me is the current general perception of artificial intelligence technology. There are a few key concepts that are not often included in the general discussion of creating machines that think and act like us.
 

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Given all this, it’ll only be a matter of time before scientists take all this newfound insight and start to build brains inside of computers. At first, these emulations will be simple. But eventually, they’ll exhibit capacities that are akin to the real thing — including subjective awareness.

Would it be evil to build a functional brain inside a computer? George Dvorsky 6/27/13 2:20pmFiled to Futurism, There’s been a lot of talks recently about using supercomputers to simulate the human brain. But as scientists get progressively closer to achieving this goal, they’re going to have to consider the ethics involved. By making minds that live inside machines, we run the risk of inflicting serious harm. New $1.6 billion supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human brain In what is the largest and most significant effort to re-create the human brain to date, an… Brain mapping is all the rage right now. Europeans have their $1.6 billion Human Brain Project, and Obama recently okayed the US’s $100 million brain mapping initiative. There’s also Sebastian Seung’s efforts to map the brain’s connectome, and the OpenWorm project — a plan to simulate the C. Elegans nematode worm in a computer. And recently, a team comprised of artificial intelligence theorists, roboticists, and consciousness experts announced their intentions to develop a robot with the intelligence of a three-year-old child. Obama has announced a $100-million Brain-Mapping, project President Obama announced plans this morning for a long-term research project to improve our… A project to build a robot with the intelligence of a three-year-old Hanson Robotics has launched a new Indigogo campaign to create "the world's smartest… The breakthroughs are starting to come in. Just last week, European scientists produced the first ultra-high resolution 3D scan of the entire human brain. They captured the brain’s physical detail at the astonishingly low resolution of 20-microns. See the first ultra-high resolution, the 3D scan of the entire human brain An international research team has produced the first-ever ultra-high resolution 3D digital… Given all this, it’ll only be a matter of time before scientists take all this newfound insight and start to build brains inside of computers. At first, these emulations will be simple. But eventually, they’ll exhibit capacities that are akin to the real thing — including subjective awareness. Deep Learning: Towards General Artificial Intelligence
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In other words, consciousness. Or sentience. Or qualia. Or whatever else you want to call it. But whichever words we choose to use, we’ll need to be aware of one incredibly important thing: These minds will live and have experiences, inside of computers. And that’s no small thing — because if we’re going to be making minds, we sure as hell need to do it responsibly. 'We want to be good' This was the topic of Anders Sandberg’s talk at the recently concluded GF2045 Congress held in New York City. Sandberg, a neuroscientist working at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, is concerned about the harm that could be inflicted on software capable of experiencing thoughts, emotions, and sensations. Would you copy your mind to a robotic body-double? A central theme of the recently concluded GF2045 Congress was the idea of achieving a kind of… Read on io9.​com This is what it’s like to shake hands with the future Meet Nigel Ackland, the recipient of the Bebionic 3 artificial hand — the world’s most advanced… “We don’t want to build a future build on bad methods,” he told the audience, “Ethics matter because we want to be good.” 3E•Beijing International Artificial Intelligence Conference | TracticaCountdown to Human-Free Construction in Less Than 10 Years
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But as his presentation suggested, it’s not going to be easy. In discussing the potential for virtual lab animals, Sandberg noted that we can’t do simulations of testing on animals until we develop accurate simulations — which will likely require testing on lab animals. We’re having a hard time wrapping our heads around real animals having moral worth, let alone the idea of emulations carrying moral weight. Sandberg quoted Jeremy Bentham who famously said, “The question is not, can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer?” And indeed, scientists will need to be very sensitive to this point. No need to fear Artificial Intelligence - Livemint
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A Big Data Cheat Sheet: From Narrow AI to General AI Sandberg also pointed out the work of Thomas Metzinger, who back in 2003 argued that it would be deeply horrendously unethical to develop conscious software — software that can suffer. Metzinger had this to say about the prospect: What would you say if someone came along and said, “Hey, we want to genetically engineer mentally retarded human infants! For reasons of scientific progress we need infants with certain cognitive and emotional deficits in order to study their postnatal psychological development — we urgently need some funding for this important and innovative kind of


research!” You would certainly think this was not only an absurd and appalling but also a dangerous idea. It would hopefully not pass any, ethics committee in the democratic world. However, what today’s ethics committees don’t see is how the first machines satisfying a minimally


sufficient set of constraints for conscious experience could be just like such mentally retarded infants. They would suffer from all kinds of functional and representational deficits too. But they would now also subjectively experience those deficits. In addition, they would have no political lobby — no representatives in any ethics committee. Smart Data Webinar: Artificial General Intelligence - When Can I Get …
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Kimera-Pioneer of Artificial General Intelligence — Steemit But can software actually suffer? Sandberg said it’s difficult to know at this point, but he suggested that we might want to be safe rather than sorry. “Perhaps it would be best to assume that any emulated system could have the same mental processes as what you're trying to emulate,” he said. Virtual lab animal ethics But Sandberg argued that all is not lost; he made the case that we can be moral when making brains. We just have to be smart — and compassionate — about it.

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Future scientists should ameliorate virtual suffering in their subjects and work to ensure a high quality of life. For example, Sandberg proposed that virtual mice be given virtual painkillers. We’ll also have to consider the ethics of euthanizing conscious software programs and the potential harm imposed by death and the cessation of experiences. It might also come to our attention that Second Life-like environments are too boring, requiring us to scale-up the VR accordingly. As an aside, any emulated brain will need to be endowed with an emulated body situated within a simulated environment. The purpose of the brain is to present us with a model of the world, and it does so by drawing information from the senses. So, without a body and an environment, an emulated brain would not be able to function properly. Human Emulations And then there’s the issue of building a human brain inside a computer — a development that will introduce an entire battery of questions and issues. For example, would we believe that an emulated human brain is conscious? And would it have rights? It’s conceivable that, without the proper foresight and necessary prescriptions, a successful human emulation will be considered a non-entity — a non-person devoid of any legal protections and rights. By consequence, it could be subject to destructive editing and loss of (virtual) bodily autonomy. Even if it did have rights, there are still potential risks. It’s handling could be flawed, or it could be emotionally distressed. “Emulations may be rights holders, yet have existences not worth experiencing or be unable to express its wishes,” said Sandberg. “And when should we pull the plug? Or would we store it indefinitely?” Another issue is time-rate rights. Does a human emulation have the right to live in real-time, so that it can interact properly with non-digital society? The other thing to consider is identity and intellectual property rights. Emulations could lack privacy, and they’d be subject to copying, instant erasure, and editing — an, have no guarantee of self-contained embodiment. Digital minds could also be copied illegally and bootlegged. Issues may also emerge about ownership over brain scans. “We need to do some tricks here,” concluded Sandberg, “We have a chance to get to the future in a moral way.” Preparing For the Future Sandberg is totally on the right track here. Foresight is key. We can’t just hope to resolve these issues after the fact. We’re talking about creating moral agents; if their suffering can be averted, then let’s do it.
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However, ethics is just a starting point. Laws need to be enacted so that our moral sensibilities can be enforced. And indeed, the time is coming, when a piece of software will cease to be an object of inquiry and instead transform into a subject that deserves moral consideration, and by virtue of this, legal protection. Back in 2010, I gave a presentation on this topic at the H+ Summit at Harvard University. To get the conversation started, I proposed that the following rights be afforded to fully conscious human and human-like emulations: The right to not be shut down against one’s will The right to not be experimented upon The right to have full and unhindered access to one’s own source code The right to not have one’s source code manipulated against their will The right to copy (or not copy) oneself The right to privacy (namely the right to conceal one’s own internal mental states) The right of self-determination

Looking back, this list could use some add-ons and refinements. For example, I’d like to include Sandberg’s idea of time-rate rights. and I still agree with the general principle behind the list. And what’s more, it’s an issue that will undoubtedly carry over to mind uploads and robots running either brain emulations or sophisticated artificial general intelligence programming. Eventually, we’ll also have to include some negative rights to mitigate certain risks, like transcending uploads, or the enslaving of one's own copies. The point is to get to the future in a moral way. Discussion Popular Denisdekat George Dvorsky 6/27/13 11:57am Yeah interesting but what about all the neurons in the stomach? Would we be the same without those? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id… 1 Reply George Dvorsky Denisdekat 6/27/13 1:30pm It's assumed that all physiological aspects required for fully functional human cognition would be considered and simulated, including gut biome. 2 Reply Zen Mutiny George Dvorsky 6/27/13 12:13pm The right to copy (or not copy) oneself I would include here, the right not to be copied against one's will. 2 Reply George Dvorsky Zen Mutiny 6/27/13 1:29pm Yes, definitely. Reply casen George Dvorsky 6/27/13 12:02pm I like your rules, but I would remove or qualify this one: "The right to have full and unhindered access to one’s own source code." If you mean they have the right to see their own code (read-only access), then ok. If you mean they can alter their own source code, then no. Oft used example: we don't want them realizing the human race is killing itself and therefore the AI decides to hasten it for us. I personally would not vote for this rule. Too much unpredictability, imo. 1 Reply5 replies George Dvorsky casen 6/27/13 1:29pm I think they should have access and the right to self-modification — but not all mods should be allowable. 1 Reply4 replies delphifissure George Dvorsky 6/27/13 12:54pm Suicide rights...a sentient program should have the ability to delete itself if it so chose. 6 Reply2 replies George Dvorsky delphifissure 6/27/13 1:27pm Agreed. Reply Corpore Metal George Dvorsky 6/27/13 11:41am I'd add the right to have a body and senses on that list. 11 Reply5 replies George Dvorsky Corpore Metal 6/27/13 11:48am Interesting — I like it. Reply Corpore Metal George Dvorsky 6/27/13 12:07pm And I think it's kind of key. Otherwise we have a Johnny Got his Gun situation and that's something you don't want to subject any conscious being to. Reply 7856785 George Dvorsky 6/27/13 11:36am This is a great article. The future is here. Now deal with it. 3 Reply George Dvorsky 7856785 6/27/13 11:47am Thank you. 1 Reply LambicPentamter George Dvorsky 6/27/13 11:26am "Would it be evil to build a functional brain inside a computer?" The Orange Catholic Bible says 'yes' 12 Reply1 replies DTurkin George Dvorsky 6/27/13 11:28am And again I'm left thinking that just because something is possible, it doesn't mean it should be done. Imagine if a person's brain was faithfully emulated, it would suffer from a type of 'locked-in syndrome', something I wouldn't wish on my worse enemies. Then, because it was conscious, we wouldn't be able to pull the plug because it is a sentient being. Only sub-sentient emulations should ever be made of a human brain. 4 Reply2 replies Bat-dork George Dvorsky 6/27/13 11:38am Why are we so obsessed with creating human-like intelligence by artificial means and raise all the ethical questions, when a human brain can be produced by a night of wild sex, high alcohol and poor judgement? I certainly understand that brain-like power in a device has several advantages. But going as far as trying to achieve actual thought and sentience means we're no longer simply creating a tool. We're creating a being, and we are potentially creating our own Skynet. Shouldn't we focus in making sure these technologies remain as tools for our own sake? 1 Reply3 replies onetosee4one George Dvorsky 6/27/13 11:44am I know this will be taken the wrong way, But does anyone think this sounds like the image of the beast? It does to me. 1 Reply J. Steve White George Dvorsky 6/27/13 12:28pm Of course, the elephant in the room is the Simulation Argument. If we can, in fact, simulate a "human brain" in an electronic environment, simulate reality and interaction, then it becomes highly likely that we are, ourselves, such simulations. But it remains to be seen that consciousness is substrate independent. It's not that I think it's not, it's that we literally have insufficient data to make that call right now. If, in fact, consciousness is substrate independent, then the Simulation Argument becomes very strong. And, of course, one must define consciousness before one can grant rights to 'anyone who possesses it'. 1 Reply1 replies J. Steve White George Dvorsky 6/27/13 12:35pm I don't find Metzinger's argument particularly compelling in this context (though I love his work on consciousness). Why would we necessarily reason from the concept of taking a human and crippling them as an analogy for thinking machines, rather than, say, taking a mouse and making it much, much smarter? Would it necessarily suffer? I don't think that we can make that assumption - or that it's even warranted. 2 Reply chiki_briki George Dvorsky 6/27/13 1:12pm I would argue that the capacity to reason and solve equations is a function of cogitation, whereas things like empathy and suffering (or at least a lot of it) is based around chemical exchanges, and hormones, and other squishy bits that an AI wouldn't necessarily have a need for. Now, if we're simulating a full human being, Openworm style, and including simulations of all those squishy bits. then yes, I would say these apply. But I don't think an AI constructed as an AI would have the same empathetic or emotional responses without at least some wetware. 1 Reply1 replies Zen Mutiny George Dvorsky 6/27/13 4:25pm Anyone read Accelerando(Singularity) by Charles Stross? I'm reading it right now, and it explores a lot of these topics. 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