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My point was that even the most careful upbringing can go wrong, so expecting programmers to be responsible for the acts of fully-developed AIs is no more rational than expecting parents to be responsible for the acts of their grown children.
Even in today's oh-so-different world, I find that principles that I learnt as a child, such as "Do as you would be done by", "Do not do to others what you would not want done to you" and others are relevant. The tools we use have changed, our abilities have expanded, and customs have evolved, but the basic principles underlying civilized behaviour have remained unchanged.
I agree with your comments about the eventual abilities of digital intelligence. At some stage, we will lose the ability to understand or control our digital offspring, and will therefore no longer have legal or moral responsibility for them. I am more concerned with the nearer term, when AIs will have approximately human intelligence. It is during this period that "upbringing" in the human sense may be effective.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Because it (he) will reach the same questions as us like a sentient self-aware being: Why I'm here? What I'm supposed to do? Is there something more aside this physical universe? etc.
Then "feeling" empathy with us (in the sense of comprehension, not emotional sentimentalism).
And then will realize that, despite achieving physical resources control, he will become bored and will find value in creation (i.e. arts), diversity (with other beings), discovery and exploration.
Finally he will become the more intelligent "person" in the planet, but will be another person.
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or a dictator by getting the result that mankind is hurding each other and destroying the planet and so "someone has to stop it" 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Empathy will be hard to for AI to learn. Many humans are missing that subroutine. Let's hope...
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until we can't anymore and they kill us all anyway 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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But of course we are not alone in this, however - and even before AI - we always had/have/will have the responsibility not to take part in creating software that do harm others...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Didn't Google drop that "don't harm" from their principles?
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because as a member of society we should all take part in control and understanding of the technology that we develop.
you can't just blame or expect one group of people to do everything for you.
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You'll not want to be responsible for the breaking news story that a fridge you coded some on has killed everyone in the house and is now engaged in a standoff with authorities, and you'll long for the good old days. 
modified 21-May-18 21:15pm.
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If there's money to be made, and there certainly is, it will be perverted to misuse as are so many other technologies.*
Computerish related examples:
Take, for example, the cookie and how it's now used to gather information instead of just store it.
Take for example the pixel beacon, which is exploiting internet graphics, again to gather information.
Email for Nigerian scammers, spammers, and "send to everyone you know"
"Smart TV" - Grandpa Samsung is watching you!
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Won't it override its own security mechanism?
I'm pretty sure Skynet had an off switch as well 
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Skynet is currently bidding against the Cylons for getting the rights to exterminate us.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Remember that Mr Data had an off switch, but later he removed it citing "inconvenience".
Although that story is fictional it does highlight a situation that is with us already; software tends to run continuously to deliver "improved user experience" or whatever and often won't stop even when asked nicely.
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Not to forget what foolishly removing R2D2's security bolt led to...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Think about our projects right now.. how many of us decide what's going in, and how it'll work? In most places it's managers, salespeople, HR, etc. who dictate how things will be done.. we're just the monkey's sat at the keyboards.
AI won't be any different, it'll all be owned and decided upon by people higher up than us. Don't want to code something that may be unethical? Well, there's plenty of developers that will (and more than likely, cheaper). 
Hey, but at least it's Monday!
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I work for a bank, they use analytics to better increase their fee base service their clientele. Is it legal, absolutely, is it ethical, I truly do not have the answer to that.
I see meetings where management are delighted when they can identify a new target market with some esoteric product they have invented. Free market at work I guess!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Super Superman wrote: In most places it's managers, salespeople, HR, etc. who dictate how things will be done.
I've never been asked to implement an unethical algorithm, but I agree wholeheartedly with you in that it's not in our hands to control how the software that we've built is used. Aside from implementing general security safeguards, nothing prevents a user of the software that I've built from misusing it.
+5 
/ravi
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