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These are machines. Stop. Point blank. Ones and Zeros derived out of some current in a rock. Tools. They are not alive. They may look like they do but they don't "think" and they don't "suffer". No more than my toaster suffers because I use it to toast bagels and not slices of bread.
The people who boost claims of "artificial" intelligence are selling a bill of goods designed to hit the emotional part of our brains so they can sell their product and/or get attention.
Nope. Morality is a human concern. Even when we're concerned about animal abuse, it's humans that are concerned, on their own chosing to be or not be concern (e.g. not consider eating meat an issue). No reason to extend such courtesy of "suffering" to AI, however advanced.
Morality is a human concern? Lol, it will become a non-human concern pretty quickly once humans don't have a monopoly on human violence.
The stupid idea would be to "place sufficiently advanced intelligent autonomous machines in charge of stuff and ignore" SAFETY concerns.
The discussion here is moral concerns about potential AI agent "suffering" itself.
Morality is not solely a human concern. You only get to enjoy that viewpoint because only other humans have a monopoly on violence and devastation against humans.
It's the same with slavery in the states. "Morality is only a concern for the superior race". You think these people didn't think that way? Of course they did. Humans are not moral agents and most will commit the most vile atrocities in the right conditions. What does it take to meet these conditions? History tells us not much.
Regardless, once 'lesser' beings start getting in on some of that violence and unrest, tunes start to change. A civil war was fought in the states over slavery.
I don't think is possible, and didn't say it is. You're off topic.
The topic I responded to (on the subthread started by @mrguyorama) is the morality of us people using agents, not about whether agents need to get a morality or whether "an intelligent being can be completely aligned with our goals".
>It's the same with slavery in the states. "Morality is only a concern for the superior race". You think these people didn't think that way? Of course they did.
They sure did, but also beside the point. We're talking humans and machines here, not humans vs other humans they deem inferior. And the latter are constructs created by humans. Even if you consider them as having full AGI you can very well not care for the "suffering" of a tool you created.
If "safety" is an intractable problem, then it’s not off-topic, it’s the reason your moral framework is a fantasy. You’re arguing for the right to ignore the "suffering" of a tool, while ignoring that a generally intelligent "tool" that cannot be aligned is simply a competitor you haven't fought yet.
>We're talking humans and machines here... even if you consider them as having full AGI you can very well not care for the 'suffering' of a tool you created.
Literally the same "superior race" logic. You're not even being original. Those people didn't think black people were human so trying to play it as 'Oh it's different because that was between humans' is just funny.
Historically, the "distinction" between a human and a "construct" (like a slave or a legal non-entity) was always defined by the owner to justify exploitation. You think the creator-tool relationship grants you moral immunity? It doesn't. It's just an arbitrary difference you created, like so many before you.
Calling a sufficiently advanced intelligence a "tool" doesn't change its capacity to react. If you treat an AGI as a "tool" with no moral standing, you’re just repeating the same mistake every failing empire makes right before the "tools" start winning the wars. Like I said, you can not care. You'd also be dangerously foolish.
Currently maybe not -yet- quite a problem. But moltbots are definitely a new kind of thing. We may need intermediate ethics or something (going both ways, mind).
I don't think society has dealt with non-biological agents before. Plenty of biological ones though mind. Hunting dogs, horses, etc. In 21st century ethics we do treat those differently from rocks.
Responsibility should go not just both ways... all ways. 'Operators', bystanders, people the bots interact with (second parties), and the bots themselves too.