Sunday, September 12, 2021

This seems to suggest that human rights are not ethical (not based on ethics). Or am I completely misreading this?

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8719381/file/8719382

Children’s rights in a digital world

WORKSHOP ON ETHICS AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

The private sector’s focus on and the public sector’s push for ethics often imply resistance to human rights-based regulation. While ethics provide a critical framework for working through particular challenges in the field of artificial intelligence, it is not a replacement for human rights, to which every State is bound by law. Companies and governments should ensure that human rights considerations and responsibilities are firmly integrated into all aspects of their artificial intelligence operations even as they are developing ethical codes and guidance.”





Looks like religion and AI won’t mix easily. Perhaps we need an AI prophet?

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fb593000427182d627d6a84/t/612f770107b07c7533d221cb/1630500625482/RoboticPersonsPDF.pdf

ROBOTIC PERSONS

Joshua Smith’s Robotic Persons is a fascinating contribution to the study of human-robot interaction, from a Christian Evangelical perspective. Smith combines biblical exegesis with erudite insights from philosophy, law and contemporary theology, as well as a firm understanding of AI technology. Smith’s writing is compelling, clear and accessible. His work deserves serious consideration not just by theologians and Christian scholars, but also by the wider academic and scientific community





Interesting. If building an autonomous weapon is so easy to do, how can we prevent someone from using it?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/i-weapons-are-third-revolution-warfare/620013/

The Third Revolution in Warfare

But the downsides and liabilities far outweigh these benefits. The strongest such liability is moral—nearly all ethical and religious systems view the taking of a human life as a contentious act requiring strong justification and scrutiny. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has stated, “The prospect of machines with the discretion and power to take human life is morally repugnant.”

when the killing is assigned to an autonomous-weapon system, the accountability is unclear (similar to accountability ambiguity when an autonomous vehicle runs over a pedestrian).



(Related)

https://academic.oup.com/ia/article-abstract/97/5/1630/6363950

I, warbot: the dawn of artificially intelligent conflict

‘Popular understanding of AI [artificial intelligence] has long drawn on science fiction’ (p. 13). It is in this spirit of Hollywood imagination that Kenneth Payne presents his theory of warbots, proposing his own variations on Isaac Asimov's famous laws of robotics. While Payne's laws lack the pithy parsimony of their fictional counterparts, his prescriptions for humane operations, creative strategic decision-making and mission protection offer guidance for the incorporation of artificial intelligence into the wars of tomorrow.





The benefits of marriage, for males.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-09-12



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