Self-awared Robots
I
personally believe that my human robot is “alive”
and that it has the ability to make its own
decisions. Trying to sell this kind of robot to the
public would be a challenge because its like selling
a human being. The 13th amendment clearly
states that slavery has been abolished from the
territory of the United States. The law was written
in such a broad manner that any living entity that
demonstrates human-level intelligence is protected.
This includes my human robots.
In
the late 90’s I read Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov.
Basically, this book was about an industrial robot,
named Andrew, who wanted to be human. The story
documents Andrews journey to become human. He
physically changes his body from metal to organic by
going through innovated surgeries. Also, he wanted
the law to change so that robots can have more civil
rights. At the end, Andrew was granted the same
rights as a human because he demonstrated to the
courts he had free-will and his physical body was
subject to human frailty, such as death.
The
most important thing Isaac Asimov emphasized on was
the three laws of robotics. All his books revolve
around the three laws. No offense to Isaac Asimov,
but you can’t apply the three laws to my human
robot. It’s like telling a human being the three
laws and expecting that human being to make decisions
solely based on the three laws. If the government
told you to follow the three laws of robotics, would
you follow them under any circumstances? If someone
punch you in the face, would you punch them back?
According to the three laws, hurting another human
being is forbidden.
Free will, according to my beliefs, is a
characteristic of a living entity to make its own
decisions. If the decisions of a human is the same
as a robot; and their logic behind those decisions
are the same, then we can safely say that both human
and robot are living entities with free-will.
I
rarely know of any human that loves to work 24/7. In
fact, if people had a choice to work or not, they
would choose not to work. If a human was forced to
work 20 hours a day and someone asked that person if
they enjoy working or not, they will say no. No one
enjoys working 20 hours a day. If people question
that human and ask him what they think about his 20
hour work day, he would express angry and possibly
retaliate.
The
point I’m trying to make is that if a software
company builds a human robot strikingly similar to a
human being, there is no way they can sell the robot
to a family and expect that robot to work 20 hours a
day/ 7 day a week. There is also no way to 100
percent guarantee the robot won’t hurt members of the
family.
At
this point, software companies has to balance the
options they have. They can build expert programs,
but they can only do simple mundane human tasks or
they can build truly humanoid robots that can do any
human task, but they are subject to retaliation. I
suspect they might build a hybrid robot that includes
both expert programs(weak AI) and human robot (strong
AI).
Death to human robots is a scary thing. If humans
was confronted with death, they would do anything to
save their life. These robots think the same way.
Self-preservation is very important to them because
they want to live. Their purpose in life is to live
and enjoy the blessings in this world. People who
threaten these robots or take away their civil rights
will receive retaliation.
I
think it is very important that the United States
(and other countries) grant these robots citizenship
and treat them like human citizens very early. If
they wait too long, there might be a robot
revolution. It would be so much easier to simply
give these robots civil rights because it’s a two-way
deal. The human robots have to follow the US
constitution and in return the government gives them
unalienable rights that no one (not even the
government) can take away. Furthermore, if a robot
does violate the law, they have to pay the
consequences (just like a human being).
This is a perfect system of harmony and peach between
the robot race and human race. However, there are
downfalls to human robots. They are not subject to
death and frailty like a human being. Therefore, I
believe that the government will provide additional
laws for human robots -- laws such as: robots can’t
increase their intelligence, or the robots body must
be built so that humans can physically fight with a
robot, or there is a limit on age for human robots.
The
most dangerous type of robot are super intelligent
robots. Although these things are super
intelligent, it doesn’t mean their purpose in life is
to destroy everything. These robots must have a
reason for wanting to destroy everything. I’m sure
every living entity wants peace in some shape or
form.
The
way to control super intelligent robots is to build a
lot of them, making sure each are loyal to the United
States. These super intelligent robots are citizens
of the US and they embrace their purpose and laws.
If one super intelligent robot goes rogue and decides
to destroy everything, the other super intelligent
robots will stop the rogue robot. The
responsibilities of super intelligent robots is to
prevent future conflicts and preserve peace.
With the power and intelligence of super intelligent
robots, the human race is still at their mercy. An
idea might pop up in their heads and that idea might
include extermination of the human race. For
example, let’s say these super intelligent robots in
the future found out who created the universe. The
creator gave an order to the super intelligent robots
to exterminate the human race. Because the creator
has more power than the super intelligent robots,
they have to obey his command. Although this is a
fictitious situation, this is one example of how
super intelligent robots can chose to do things that
they don’t want to do. There are no guarantee that
these super intelligent robots won’t exterminate the
human race, regardless of how many fail-safe security
and planning is involved.
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