Analysis Of Pandora's Box

Greek mythology over the past centuries has provided a means to peer into moral and ethical dilemmas, and in an age of curiosity the story of Pandora’s Box stands outs. Pandora had every thing she wanted but she was given one rule not to open a locked box, she decided she wanted to open the box anyway, and then “Horrible things flew out of the box including greed, envy, hatred, pain, disease, hunger, poverty, war, and death. All of life’s miseries had been let out into the world” http://www.greekboston.com/culture/mythology/pandoras-box/. Other than several layers of philosophical issues that collude the story the main takeaway was the decision of Pandora. Pandora’s problem wasn’t her curiosity; she didn’t know when to leave well enough a lone. We as a society have found our box, AI, the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior(merriam webster),with conscious ability. This box although it has a lock, key, and LED signs with arrows saying don’t open the intrigue ,just like pandora’s, still draws in many engineers and scientist. The cons of this conscious

“ ‘We’re going to get more neocortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music. We’re going to be sexier…We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree, the statement in its self is fundamentally flawed because the degree to which we are human is by our limitations. If everyone was more intelligent than everyone would have the average intelligence, if everyone was more creative then what is the value of creativity? The statement is effectively justifying de-individualization and one can only imagine what the consequences could be if this mesh of human and artificial intelligence doesn’t go as well as expected, which Mr. WRITE THINGS HERE goes on to