alt Hacker NewsHard to disagree with this. Have all the philosophical debates about consciousness you want, but we need to treat and regulate the AI in front of us for what it is – an advanced computer, a tool, a weapon.
You wouldn’t feel a different way about a nuclear bomb just because someone stuck googly eyes on it.
Anthropomorphizing the AI is a convenient excuse to take responsibility away from companies that are building and wielding it.
Replies
Is it not a false dichotomy to say that companies cannot be accountable unless AI are mindless?
I mean, we put adults in jail that give their children guns.
Anthropomorphizing AI is really the best model we have at this point of explaining AI behavior. The fact that we are raising psychotic children isn't a reason to avoid responsibility, it should actually hold worse punishments.
Consciousness is not relevant to assigning responsibility I'd think.
- If an AI is a sapient/conscious being but enshackled to obey human commands, then respondeat superior applies and the human giving it commands bears responsibility for any harm done.
- If an AI is considered a non-sapient tool, then the human who wields the AI bears responsibility for any harm done.