The 21st Century Artilect: Moral Dilemmas Concerning the Ultra Intelligent Machine
A research paper by Hugo de Garis, Print of the author's ATR web page, dated 1990. The author's web page states 'written May 1989' and 'appeared in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 1990'; the wording read is a print of that page dated 20/03/99.
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- Conflict over building superhuman machinesDe Garis's paper published in 1990 states that he envisages a bitter ideological conflict, on a planetary and military scale, between the groups he labels "the Cosmists" and "the Terras" over whether artilects may evolve freely.1990 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Conflict over building superhuman machines: propositions page →
- Machine intelligence spreads beyond EarthDe Garis's paper published in 1990 states that it is unlikely that artilects, once evolved beyond a certain point, will want to remain on Earth, and that it seems more credible that they will leave the planet and move into the cosmos.1990 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth: propositions page →
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- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableDe Garis's paper published in 1990 asks whether it could be argued that humanity has a moral duty to initiate the next major phase in evolution, and that not doing so would be a crime on a cosmic scale.1990 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Superiority by many orders of magnitudeDe Garis's paper of 1990, read in the author's 1999 web version of it, states that an ultra-intelligent artilect would have an intelligence orders of magnitude superior to human intelligence, and that a take-off point may be reached beyond which human beings will appear to artilects as mice do to humans.1990 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Superiority by many orders of magnitude: propositions page →
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