Ethical Issues with Artificial Intelligence

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As a society over the past two hundred years scientist have made numerous achievements that few could of dreamed of beforehand. However, some will raise the question of “Will science ever advance to far?” To many people are going to far with the dream of creating artificial intelligence, namely those that could be considered sentient in at least some regard. To understand this lets examine the history, advantages, disadvantages, and finally whether or not creating artificial intelligences would be ethical. Artificial Intelligence or AI is the theory or goal of a series of accomplishments that would allow a computer to house a sentient life form. The idea of AI has formally been around since around 1956. There has been very slow but steady progress towards a working AI. Most scientist say that their will be AI within twenty to fifty years. There are several main theories or goals that scientist set for AI these would be: creation of a sentient life form, transferring a human consciousness to a computer; and lastly and least radical to create a super program that would be like AI in abilities but without being sentient. Also, artificial intelligences are said to be effected by the singularity model. The singularity model states that an artificial intelligence would be smarter than humans and be able to fix errors and make a better version of itself due to this intelligence; and the self-improved AI would now without these errors and with its better design become smarter again being able to fix errors and improve itself. This could happen millions of times each time getting faster and faster and like traveling towards a singularity or black hole the closer it gets to perfection the faster it will advance until it reaches a peak in i... ... middle of paper ... ...14. Papazian, Dennis R., Ph.D. "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE TECHNOLOGY: MASTER OR SLAVE?" ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE TECHNOLOGY: MASTER OR SLAVE? The University of Michigan-Dearborn, May 1992. Web. 03 Apr. 2014. . Belgum, Erik. Artificial Intelligence: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1990. Print. "Robots Could Demand Legal Rights." BBC News. BBC, 21 Dec. 2006. Web. 18 Apr. 2014. . Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. New York: Bantam, 2004. Print. Berglas, Anthony, Dr. "Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Our Grandchildren (Singularity)." Singularity: Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Our Grandchildren. Anthony@Berglas.org, Jan. 2012. Web. 19 Apr. 2014. .

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