Comments on: Can Machines Learn Morality? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/ How human ingenuity is changing the way we live Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Nao http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-1621 Nao Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:52:11 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=4912#comment-1621 You are welcome! You are welcome!

]]> By: iam he http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-1620 iam he Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:09:20 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=4912#comment-1620 For any thing to be moral.. it first implies a wiring that allows preemptive veto power over all that it does... if that circuitry is not there, no amount of moral thinking will matter. Once the ability "to say no circuitry" is there, a set of morals, values, principles and virtues must be defined which can not be violated.. then one needs to understand morality is species specific.. So if you are talking about human morality, you are asking the machine to have a human conscience with preemptive veto power over all the machine does. You want a machine to do this? when our own government can not do this? Human Conscience requires human emotions, thinking, principles and virtues, and preemptive veto power. A record of all the machine's decisions will reveal its soul... Godly or Ungodly, social or anti-social. Deserving survival or not! For any thing to be moral.. it first implies a wiring that allows preemptive veto power over all that it does… if that circuitry is not there, no amount of moral thinking will matter.

Once the ability “to say no circuitry” is there, a set of morals, values, principles and virtues must be defined which can not be violated.. then one needs to understand morality is species specific.. So if you are talking about human morality, you are asking the machine to have a human conscience with preemptive veto power over all the machine does.

You want a machine to do this? when our own government can not do this?

Human Conscience requires human emotions, thinking, principles and virtues, and preemptive veto power.

A record of all the machine’s decisions will reveal its soul… Godly or Ungodly, social or anti-social. Deserving survival or not!

]]> By: Dennis Nilsson http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-1619 Dennis Nilsson Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:08:14 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=4912#comment-1619 "Such a father and mother, such a son and daughter" “Such a father and mother, such a son and daughter”

]]> By: Randy Rieland http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-1617 Randy Rieland Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:17:31 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=4912#comment-1617 Thanks for posting the link to that story. Thanks for posting the link to that story.

]]> By: Kathy http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-1613 Kathy Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:34:52 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=4912#comment-1613 If morality can be expressed in a "set of rules" to follow, then yes, I think robots can potentially do that better than some humans. If morality can be expressed in a “set of rules” to follow, then yes, I think robots can potentially do that better than some humans.

]]> By: Nao http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-1610 Nao Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:24:23 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=4912#comment-1610 http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2010/11/the-ethical-robot/ http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2010/11/the-ethical-robot/

]]> By: Sam Adams http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/02/can-machines-learn-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Sam Adams Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:37:01 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=4912#comment-1609 <i>That’s not so far fetched. It’s not going to happen any time soon, but there’s no question that as machines become more intelligent and more autonomous, a pivotal part of their transformation will be the ability to learn morality.</i> I believe we have no idea when it will happen. For all that any of us know for certain it may be happening right now. I am much less concerned about the ethic of hypothetical autonomous robots than I am about the ethics of the minds that direct them. We have always had problems in that area and so long as humans are involved we always will. That’s not so far fetched. It’s not going to happen any time soon, but there’s no question that as machines become more intelligent and more autonomous, a pivotal part of their transformation will be the ability to learn morality.

I believe we have no idea when it will happen. For all that any of us know for certain it may be happening right now.

I am much less concerned about the ethic of hypothetical autonomous robots than I am about the ethics of the minds that direct them. We have always had problems in that area and so long as humans are involved we always will.

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