Moral for artificial intelligence



Hannele Tervola

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    lähettäjä    Hannele Tervola <[email protected]>

vastaanottaja    [email protected]

date (päiväys)    15. syyskuuta 2008 16:22

aihe    Moral for artificial intelligence

lähettänyt    gmail.com

    

    

    

Dear Sir,



There are some very general level things, kind of mathematical truths,

which apply also to artificial intelligence: the value of

1) harmony and allegiancies versus conflicts (see this as a vector sum),

2) fully functioning versus brokenness,  and

3) each part at its best place or where ever.

The last one of these gives rise to holistic objectivity, the valuing

of honesty and justice.

The second one together with the first: to human values and to the

protection of the nature.

And the three of them together give the AI a need for & the base of a

good human like moral with a holistic view of the world.

These could probably be programmed by letting the computer keep its

mathematical type way of thinking and by programming to it some basic

mathematical optimizing principles that would then be applied to

everything that the computer meets and associates with or can know

about.

(This would begin by:

It is good to take all the (major?) factors into account -> a holistic

view with a certain accuracy,

reaching for harmony (minimizing the losses, maximizing the possible

allegiancy) -> not breaking = human values & nature protection; etc.)



Thus it might be possible to make all fully functioning computer

brains moral. That does not yet quarantee that they would stay fully

functioning and moral if sabotaged badly. Still, it is better than

nothing.



Yours, Hannele Tervola

Finland, European Union











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date (päiväys)    15. syyskuuta 2008 16:22

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