What are the consequences of technology gaining intelligence?
“As autonomous vehicles edge closer to reality, it has also become a philosophical question with business implications. Should manufacturers create vehicles with various degrees of morality”…
– “Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?”, John Markoff, June 2016.
The world of technology and artificial intelligence is steadily developing as researchers create new ways for the consumer to be conveniently accommodated. In today’s society we have cars such as, Tesla that are able to go autopilot, so that the driver can be driven around automatically without having to steer the wheel or direct the car manually. These artificial intelligence vehicles and devices are built solely to protect the owner and get them to where they need to go. But, with these machines can come defects as well as harm to humans because these machines are programmed to make “moral” decisions for your best interest. What people don’t think about is what Markoff mentioned in his article about the autonomous vehicles for example, he talks about what if your vehicle has to decided between hitting a pedestrian on the road or going over a cliff just to save your life, if it’s built to protect the owner then it’s going to hit that pedestrian in order to keep you alive. My first Bachelor’s degree is in the Field of Philosophy where we talk a lot about moral ambiguity, existence, etc. But, in this case
Dealing with the issue artificial intelligence making moral decisions, that’s a matter dealing with moral philosophy which will takes a look at the concepts of what is right and what is wrong.
“Once computers achieve a level of intelligence comparable to that of humans, they will necessarily soar past it”.
-“The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine”, Ray Kurzweil, September 1999.
The consequences of technology gaining intelligence is that it can do more harm than good because these artificial beings aren’t human, they aren’t born with a conscience, neither can they appropriately distinguish between right and wrong, The very fact that they are mechanical makes much wrong for trial and error, mechanical flaws, mishaps,etc. because after a period of time just like any machine, things can go wrong.
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