Tovli Toda asked Joseph R. Lallo:

You have reignited an unrequited love with your Altruistic AI that learns from dialog and empirical data. Have you mapped/diagrammed/listed the various processes and knowledge bases Ma is currently sporting? Was Ma's altruism an emergent property or an initial design principle from the initial creative session?

Joseph R. Lallo Ma's altruism was entirely by design. An earlier AI assistant, B-SOD, had his behavior governed by the three laws of robotics and, given Karter's dubious relationship with morals and ethics, had troubles reconciling the opposing needs to serve him and do no harm. He created Ma with the intent to create an AI assistant that would be able to make value judgments and make comparatively beneficial decisions without locking up when being asked to commit the occasional destructive action. That she became kinder, warmer, more moral, and basically more human than him over the years was an unintended side effect.

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