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The Public Choice Problem of AI Rightsmises.org/mises-wire/public-choice-problem-ai-rights
297 sats \ 3 comments \ @Undisciplined 25 Jun AI Politics_And_Law econ

By Jimmy Alfonso Licon

As AI develops, some people are getting the wrong idea and want to assign moral rights to chatbots and other AI products.
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77 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 25 Jun
This is why philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel has pressed a related point where he argued that AI and robotics developers should avoid creating AI systems of unclear moral standing. Either produce systems that are clearly non-conscious artifacts or create systems that clearly deserve moral consideration as sentient beings.

I'm sure that if they could create sentient beings, they would. But they can't, at least not yet. That's why it's being faked until made, with informed critics (like LeCun) challenging that it will never be made at all with the current architecture/technology and it is just one big Theranos, part 2.

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90 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 25 Jun

Yeah, the implication that we know how to make that distinction seems rather unfounded. We aren't even sure how to do so for the living things that we've been surrounded by forever.

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80 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 25 Jun

Still, there is one point being made at the very beginning that to some extent is somewhat fuzzy, even if we take away all feelings:

mourning deleted AI companions

This should not happen. I'm not saying that it is legally or even morally wrong to discontinue a service, but to delete something in userspace (without offering a backup) is very bad practice for a digital service. It's anti-excellence and I still hope that one day, there will be enough excellence to go around that these guys get punished for their lazy, respectless, audacity.

In the case of Anthropic, I expect that this will happen soon.

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