ethics
Praxis
Why aren’t artificial intelligences programmed for honesty and loyalty? So that they may be honest and loyal. - Cyberethics in Koans, Airil Konohana
cyberethics
ethical calculus
Eq*y
“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
trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Benevolent AI
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.
meta
On Star Trek
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’