A number of people have expressed concern about making AGIs 'self' aware - fearing that this will lead to selfish behaviour.
however I don't think that AGIs can actually be ethical without being able to develop awareness of the needs of others and I don't think you can be aware of others needs without being able to distinguish between own needs and others needs (ie. others needs are not simply the self's needs) Maybe the solution is to help AGIs to develop a basic suite of concepts: -self -other -community I think all social animals have these concepts. Where AGIs need to go further is to have a very inclusive sense of what the community is - humans, AGIs, other living things - and then to have a belief that it should modify its behaviour to optimise for all the entities in the community rather than for just 'self'. Cheers, Philip ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
