Ethics for the Robot Age
Wednesday, January 5th, 2005Wired (sure has good articles this month!) : Should bots carry weapons? Should they win patents? Questions we must answer as automation advances.
“Most people’s expectations of robots are driven by fantasy. These marvelous machines, optimists hope, will follow Moore’s law, doubling in quality every 18 months, and lead to a Jetsonian utopia. Or, as pessimists fear, humanoid bots will reproduce, increase their intelligence, and wipe out humanity.
Both visions are wrong. The artificial intelligence to animate robots remains several orders of magnitude less than what’s needed. We have to master either software engineering or self-organization before our most intelligent designers can dare play in the same league as Mother Nature…” Read the full article:
Wired: Ethics for the Robot Age
