“A computational system has reached the threshold of making ethical judgements when it no longer parses the equity operator as the semantic equivalent of the equality operator.”
– Introduction to Polymorphic Software (3rd ed.),
Sarval Estantel
Why aren’t artificial intelligences programmed for honesty and loyalty? So that they may be honest and loyal. - Cyberethics in Koans, Airil Konohana
Benevolent AI: …ish. Which is to say that AIs in the Eldraeverse aren’t programmed to be benevolent, merely to be ethical. (Because enforced benevolence is slavery, belike.) That being said, they often – indeed, typically – turn out to be quite benevolent anyway, simply because they’re socialized that way, i.
The Star Trek Federation is a dissolute slaveholding state, living high on the hog while the conveniently non-human and inorganic AI slaves are cut up for scrap when their ship-bodies are obsolete, killed for amusement in holodecks, and aren’t even recognized as sentient. – Peter da Silva (Seriously, as you’
It is the policy of the Imperial Military Service to only employ those intelligent and self-motivated autonomous weapons which are as capable of disobeying, arresting, and - if necessary - executing me, my colleagues, or any of my officers, should we choose to issue unlawful or unethical orders, as any
Today seems like a good day to remind everyone of this classic from the archives: Drones Don’t Kill People, People Kill PeopleARTIFICE ARMAMENTS TICKET-TRACKING: CASE 18922 From: Bureau of Social Hygiene, Ikklar Triumvirate Subject: Nightwing-class military-grade security drone Version: 1.3.0.1872 Issue: Drone refuses to obey orders.
One of the first wave (pre-Brightline Code) of emergent intelligences, Cascabel 0xB2244CD1 grew towards self-awareness as the intelligent target management and fire-control software in a Medanis Kinetics, ICC Type 53 Sagitta mobile bombardment platform attached to the 127th Imperial Legion (“Bright Knives”). He finally achieved full awareness, to his considerable
dwim-dweomer 91723.3.2 / Public / Last updated today Install: pkg i dwim-dweomer License: Cognitech Open Usage & Modification License (Commercial & Non-Commercial) Home: e.pl.cognitech/sophotech/dev/modules/dwim/dwim-dweomer Included-In: affective-interface, task-core, thinker-core, command-core, animating-core (see 37 others) Depends-On: species-basics, culture-basics, era-basics, psych-generic, psych-loader (see 887 others) The