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What Rights Should Robots/AI Have?
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they should only do what theyre instructed / programmed to do. "t-thats s-slavery!" theyre robots xx
it shouldnt have original thought in the first place tbh
meh, if they get to a point where they're doing a lot, i mean they have rules and rules go with rights
i dont think its possible for them to have actually original thoughts like how tf
it's Artificial consciousness and not yet actually developed
im giving up if that happens like js kill me tbh im not rlly gonna save myself lol
i agree with gia, they shouldn’t have any rights as they r ROBOTSSSSS
They should have no rights , and what rights should they possibly get? . If they develop Artificial consciousness, then we are cooked because then we will have to give them rights such as right to shut down by themselves and freedom from exploitation.Rather we should focus on how humans use AI for wrong purpose and they should be stopped
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Maybe before we give literal robots rights, we focus on giving HUMANS rights? I feel like thats a bit more important in todays economy.
Skybird (Nickname Sky) wrote: "They get rights, they get treated like people, they take over the world (okay maybe thats a little dramatic, but you know what I mean)Maybe before we give literal robots rights, we focus on giving..."
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This is an essay I wrote against AI/AGII affirm the resolution that “The development of Artificial General Intelligence is immoral.”.
Value: Moral Responsibility
Moral Responsibility is the belief that humans have an Ethical Obligation to ensure that their actions have no harm on others, respect others human rights, and go hand in hand with the standard of guaranteeing a long term effect of well-being for humanity. When put in the setting of AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, moral responsibility demands that we take into account the significant consequences of developing an intelligence that could control, outpace, and harm the human race. Unforeseen Consequences are prominent with the development of AGI. As AGI continues to develop, the risks are also built up. AGI would surpass human intelligence, which could lead to outcomes that are beyond human control and prediction. Taking into account the inherent dangers like the potential for AGI to act contrary to human commands, it could endanger humanity’s existence. It is morally irresponsible to continue with AGI’s development.
Value Criterion: Ensuring Human Autonomy and Safety
Human autonomy refers to the capacity of individuals to make their own decisions, choices, and to live free from manipulation, coercion, or general control. Safety in the bounds of today’s debate is the state of being a protected individual and society as a whole from harmful outcomes, particularly those arising from new and uncontrollable technologies. In this debate, Ensuring Human Autonomy and Safety is the best criterion for determining whether the development of AGI is immoral. If AGI development jeopardizes human autonomy or creates significant safety risks, it violates the moral responsibility we have to protect human dignity and society. The creation of AGI must be subject to ethical scrutiny and must ensure that the potential risks to humanity are minimized. If these safeguards are not in place, the development of AGI would be immoral, as it would fail to meet the fundamental ethical duties we have to future generations.
Contention One: AGI Is Creating Inequality and Injustice
The widespread automation of everyday jobs could lead to a rise in unemployment without proper redistribution of wealth or opportunities, disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable members of society. Forbes on June 2nd, 2023 brought these concerns up. “AI has the potential to contribute to economic inequality by disproportionally benefiting wealthy individuals and corporations. As we talked about above, job losses due to AI-driven automation are more likely to affect low-skilled workers, leading to a growing income gap and reduced opportunities for social mobility.” Furthermore, aiding the idea that AGI puts people in lower classes in harm's way. Leading the inequality that AGI brings, National Library of Medicine States in 2023, “Facial recognition systems have also been shown to be more likely to misclassify gender in subjects who are darker-skinned.18 It has also been shown that populations who are subject to discrimination are under-represented in datasets underlying AI solutions and may thus be denied the full benefits of AI in healthcare.” This proves the valid concern of AGI being immoral and acting within the definition of inequality, which is the lack of equality.
Contention Two: AGI Poses a Risk to Human Autonomy
The development of AGI threatens human autonomy by creating systems that could operate independently, outside of human control. Autonomy is a core principle of moral responsibility. If AGI becomes autonomous, or independent and surpasses human intelligence, it could act in ways that humans can’t predict nor control. This puts in danger the ability of people and societies to make free choices. The very nature of AGI could develop into situations where it makes choices for people; therefore undermining a human’s individual agency. As AGI continues to develop, it will make choices that will interfere with human autonomy. The New York Times states in 2023 that “Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.” furthermore aiding the idea that the future of human autonomy is at risk, as said from AI labs. Allowing AGI to develop, we risk the loss of agency over the basic individual human control.
Contention Three: AGI Threatens Human Safety and Security
The development of AGI presents a risk to human security and safety due to the spontaneous behavior of AGI. AGI could easily surpass human intelligence and develop strategies that do not align with human welfare and safety. As AGI becomes more advanced, it could deliberately act in ways that will endanger human lives. Forbes states on June 2nd 2023 “AI technologies often collect and analyze large amounts of personal data, raising issues related to data privacy and security.” Following this, Forbes says “As AI technologies become increasingly sophisticated, the security risks associated with their use and the potential for misuse also increase. Hackers and malicious actors can harness the power of AI to develop more advanced cyberattacks, bypass security measures, and exploit vulnerabilities in systems.” Forbes supports the exact reason why continuing onto the development of AGI can lead to invasion of privacy and security as we know it.
Contention Four: Misinformation and Manipulation is a big contender of AGI
Studies show that AGI could easily create misinformation, altering human perception as we know it. In a Stanford University study in 2021, researchers said: “AI systems are being used in the service of disinformation on the internet, giving them the potential to become a threat to democracy and a tool for fascism.” and, “The technology can be co-opted by criminals, rogue states, ideological extremists, or simply special interest groups, to manipulate people for economic gain or political advantage.” A quote from The National Library of Medicine on the 3rd of April 2023 also supports this claim. “When combined with the rapidly improving ability to distort or misrepresent reality with deepfakes, AI-driven information systems may further undermine democracy by causing a general breakdown in trust or by driving social division and conflict” and “evidence has shown how AI used at scale on social media platforms provides a potent tool for political candidates to manipulate their way into power.22 23 and it has indeed been used to manipulate political opinion and voter behaviour.24–26 Cases of AI-driven subversion of elections include the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan elections,27 the 2016 US presidential election and the 2017 French presidential election.28 29”
With these statements and evidence, I conclude that the development of AGI is immoral.
This is also evidence that giving them rights is morally wrong
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giving robots rights goes against the point of robots which is that we don't have to worry about their well-being or anything
but honestly i disagree with robots doing a lot of anything other than medical work and dangerous/risky work like mining
obviously there are exceptions but mostly they should stick to that
Skybird (Nickname Sky) wrote: "Maybe before we give literal robots rights, we focus on giving HUMANS rights? I feel like thats a bit more important in todays economy"absolutely 🙇
Skybird (Nickname Sky) wrote: "They get rights, they get treated like people, they take over the world (okay maybe thats a little dramatic, but you know what I mean)Maybe before we give literal robots rights, we focus on giving..."
yess
BRO NONEThey aren't alive it would be different if we are talking about ACTUALLY HUMANS but we are not
lets focus on giving humans rights instead !!
lets treat actual people like people instead of treating robots like people. cs are ppl rlly that against 'different' people (different races, different sex(uality), disorders, etc.) that they'd rather help robots instead? this is so fucked up 😭the entire point of a robot is for it to act what its instructed or programmed to do without having to give it a salary or something. they cant and will never develop original thought so it doesnt have feelings either. yk who do have feelings? these humans yall r discriminating. or we can at least focus on the humans using AI for bad?? like we need to get our priorities straight
So I agree with @gia. People and robots are different nd they will always be.
So I agree with @gia. People and robots are different nd they will always be.
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um none? they're robots xx ' we've all been waiting for ai to surpass human strengths, when we should have been watching for it to surpass human weaknesses. '
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saying u can program a robot to have feelings is lit impossible. think abt it guys. i hope robots go extinct idc. like i love my blender but thats it.
do yall know how much water AI uses?? ai shouldve never existed tbh. like yes it could be helpful in some situations, but its getting out of hand and shouldve been kept more under control
robots don’t have any fucking brains so no rights? that doesn’t even make sense lolol
why are we giving robots rights?? they don't even have thoughts and emotions lmao, they don't need rightspretty sure we should be focusing on giving actual people rights before artificial intelligence that can't even function in society
thats not even a slur atp bc the definition of a slur is a word that discriminates bro. how tf do u discriminate robots
As big as I am on the angel / machinery symbolism, robots and AI don't have feelings nor are they sentient. Why should they have rights when there's so many places where animals and humans don't?
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For example, women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people should be treated as actual humans before artificial intelligence and robots are! Give women equal pay and full bodily autonomy, give members of the LGBTQ+ community the right to gender-affirming healthcare and marriage to who they wish, and stop discrimination of people of color everywhere
I don't think they should have any.
Has anyone seen the AI actor that is having her debut. Apparently (DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT) she is being sought out by major acting agencies like Hollywood. Her name is Tillie Norwood i think. But the point is she doesn’t deserve rights. She doesn’t even deserve a real job just because it pays less than real actors. It’s boulderdash.
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Yes I heard about that this morning omg
⋆✿Grace✿⋆ wrote: "Has anyone seen the AI actor that is having her debut. Apparently (DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT) she is being sought out by major acting agencies like Hollywood. Her name is Tillie Norwood i think. Bu..."that's actually so insane what?? like are they paying her or the person who created her or what?
soph ₊˚ෆ (joey's version) 🍉 wrote: "⋆✿Grace✿⋆ wrote: "Has anyone seen the AI actor that is having her debut. Apparently (DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT) she is being sought out by major acting agencies like Hollywood. Her name is Tillie N..."I actually have no clue 😭 who even made her is my question-
At this point human creativity is being completely destroyed. People are so quick to use AI for things that they don't even use their own voices or brains in the process anymore. There's no reason a robot should be given 'rights.' Not only does it not have consciousness, it's not a living or breathing being. It's just a bunch of cogs and metals that humans put together. By this logic, if we were to give rights to AI, shouldn't we give rights to things like microwaves? It's silly, and frankly we need to focus more on the rights of LIVING things like animals and even humans.
Nimbus wrote: "At this point human creativity is being completely destroyed. People are so quick to use AI for things that they don't even use their own voices or brains in the process anymore. There's no reason..."
EXACTLY
Honestly, I'm at the point where I really hate AI. It's the single most destructive thing we've invented so far. I think my hate mainly comes from a writing standpoint, because I want to grow up to be an author. But who's to say how advanced AI will be at that point? Will I even be able to take up that career? And at school, children are using AI more and more, causing them to become lazy. The education system is now grading major tests and essays with AI, which is hypocritical considering that fact that they tell us not to use it. (Not every teacher, but I learned the SAT, STAAR, and TSIA are graded with AI on the essay portions) I think AI is stupid, and as a machine it does not need any rights. But it needs some MAJOR regulation. The AI youtube commercials are seriously getting out of control. "Did you know you can create a website without even learning how to code?" Did you know people rely on that to make money??? I would destroy it if I could, ngl.
Kennedy wrote: "Honestly, I'm at the point where I really hate AI. It's the single most destructive thing we've invented so far. I think my hate mainly comes from a writing standpoint, because I want to grow up to..."Exactly my thoughts 😭
