Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts about the impact and future direction of proprietary software and technologies of surveillance and control.

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@gslima Humans program AI, so we still have a chance to encode some values  
into it, if AI ever becomes a serious thing. Take for example Asimov's law  
for robots. "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity  
to come to harm." Something similar can be programmed into the AI's. It would  
also be great, if AI's do take a greater responsibility in our society, to  
make the code free and open and unencumbered by US patent laws which have  
recently harmed more than helped our society. Take for example drug companies  
that sit on cancer treatments but refuse to release them until market  
conditions are favorable. Patents were there originally to help encourage  
innovation, but now this system is strangling it. So gslima, you see the  
future as dark because we (as a society) have not come up with certain key  
principles to build it on except profit.