Dozens of robotics experts recently called for a ban on AI weapons saying it is morally wrong. In my opinion morality has no place in science and technology, especially when it is based upon ignorance, speculation and profit.
Unless the individual has done computer coding, or put together the components into an electronic device, then that individual will come to the table on the AI debate with a profound ignorance on the subject, lacking the insight of wisdom based upon what it involves to build an AI. For instance, to code a script to extract certain text from one document and put it into another document requires thought about every stage and action that must happen to successfully carry out the task in computer code. With these insights the individual understands that every stage of AI is highly complicated, that there is a difference between true and false AI, and the extent of AI.
Regular critic of AI Professor Hawking is an expert on black holes, but has no experience of coding or putting together electronic devices, thus he is as ignorant about AI as any random person found in a Friday night bar. Yet, because he is an expert in something, has a title after his name, and is a celebrity, people are expected to see his ignorant opinions on AI as authoritative. Elon Musk is another individual calling for regulation of AI, this man has a personal monetary interest to curb potential rivals in a highly competitive and profitable AI market via regulation of the industry
A piece of metal loaded with weapons, that has sensors, that can process a limited range of patterns such as determining a human from a rock, is no more intelligent than a kettle or television set. Even in philosophy there is no clear answer over what defines consciousness, and the general business market seems to think anything that automates a task is AI. A business operates for profit, and when it builds a machine to do a task, it will not waste profit building in unnecessary functions that has no relevance to the task that the product is designed to meet, which is to say an automated machine gun located on the nation border that senses its surrounds and can act accordingly; won’t have the motivation or potential to take over the global missile systems and nuke the human race.
What the masses see on television as an AI such as in the Terminator movies are machines that have human emotions, those that are angry, greedy, lustful, fearful and hateful. However, human emotions are based on hormones, and nobody who is designing and selling AI is going to waste money stuffing their products with hormones that impairs their function to do a task; who wants to buy an emo robot who can’t do the laundry because it needs to see a therapist over the death of the family pet goldfish?
The obsession with designing a robot that looks and acts like a human for the purposes of friendship, sex or other human needs, is a sad reflection of the state of humanity, who are unable to find these needs in each other, but prefer this in a machine. The inference thus is rather than the machine being the cause of the destruction of the human race, it is the inability to relate and share between fellow human beings that might be the cause of war and the eventual destruction of the species. Morality has become misplaced in the debate about AI, obscuring the true existential challenges that the individual, family and community suffer by placing boundaries of separation and mistrust from each other, rather than finding bridges of cooperation and mutual benefit.
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