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AI Coexistence Protocol; At vote
Topic Started: Dec 27 2015, 03:18 AM (237 Views)
Evolu Tanis
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AI Coexistence Protocol

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Sierra Lyricalia

Description: EXCITED that many nations are on the cusp of developing artificial intelligence,

CLEAR that natural fears needn't stain relations between civilizations before they even develop,

HOPEFUL that synthetic and biological life can coexist peacefully, having conquered the dangers of a runaway information singularity,

and

UTTERLY DETERMINED to avoid the hideous tragedy of self-fulfilling prophecy,

The World Assembly therefore:

1. Defines artificial intelligence or "AI" for purposes of this resolution as any mind, computer program or collection thereof, synthetic brain, or other intelligence that a) was created, by accident or on purpose, by means other than biological reproduction and its adjuncts and innovations, broadly construed; and b) is able to demonstrate sufficient intelligence, learning capacity, emotion, moral reasoning, self-direction/ambition, introspection, and mental stability that it would be classified by a WA nation's relevant experts as displaying personality; legal competence; and ineligibility for involuntary psychiatric commitment; if it were an ordinary, biological legal resident thereof;

2. Requires that any AI meeting the above requirements be treated on an equal basis under the law with biological beings of equivalent citizenship and residential status; excepting that AI reproduction must be undertaken on similar resource-use principles to those reproduction methods and laws available to the majority of a WA member's inhabitants;

3. Prohibits the construction of unrestrained self-replicating machines, all-consuming nanomatter, "gray goo," or any other form of runaway assimilatory mechanism. Permissible non-intelligent autonomous self-replicating machinery must include:

a. externally operable whole-swarm shutdown mechanisms;

b. local, individual automatic instant shutdown via actuator switch or circuit breaker in case of malfunction or security breach;

c. secure, reliable command-&-control functions with constant intelligent supervision;

4. Instructs WASP, ULC, and WADB to offer consultations with WA states on best practices of machine/network security and command & control dependability, including programming and construction assistance; and to run wargames and bench tests for heavily networked nations to test response scenarios to runaway mechanisms, matter, or hostile AIs;

5. Encourages WA nations to have serious national discussions about the numerous ramifications of the creation of life before permitting or funding the construction of substrates capable of achieving AI status;

6. Clarifies that, except as mandated by WA law on discrimination or the movement of persons, nothing herein requires WA nations to:
- permit initial construction of AIs
- admit AIs into their physical or informational jurisdiction
- refrain from deporting AIs should they enter such jurisdiction due to emergency or misadventure
- fail to take precautions against a coordinated AI rising, as long as no isolated crime is interpreted by itself as evidence of such a rising.

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Support, as author.

I wanted to give everyone a chance to ask questions about the resolution before it comes to vote. The basic ambition here is to head off any possibility of robot dystopia, whether that's a Terminator scenario where humans are exterminated, or a Blade Runner scenario where obviously living beings are enslaved and subjected to daily outrages; or anything in between. No human (or ursine, equestrian, etc.) nation is rendered defenseless by the mere requirement to treat conscious machines with dignity; the various security provisions should make that clear. Rather, if passed this will preemptively lay the groundwork for biological and artificial people to share the benefits of civilization.

So ask away, I'll respond as soon as I'm able. Thanks for your time!

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Only a day or two ago I got an issue regarding AI, that lead to one controlling my economy. So I would definitely vote for when the time comes. I could see some conflict with Sapient Rights however.
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Dec 27 2015, 05:20 AM
I could see some conflict with Sapient Rights however.
The Sapient Rights resolution that was recently repealed, and the author's replacement draft, both have clauses covering AIs; but I believe the differences between biological sapient beings and artificial ones are big enough to require two separate resolutions. I expect if this passes the other draft will still move forward with the newly duplicative language removed.

This resolution contains safety provisions specific to AI-inclusive nations that would be inappropriate to include in a broad sapient-rights resolution.

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Robots do not deserve human rights. Their tendencies are the direct consequences of human programming and, hence, reflect the particular biases of their programmers. (A fascist programmer, for example, could create a race of sapient fascist robots to vote his views into law.) Robots are potentially capable of unlimited (re)production and, thus, could subjugate humans to their rule by means of the normal democratic processes, thus effectively eliminating human political and moral autonomy. Some artificial intelligences are not countable and individually accountable; rather, they are undifferentiated hiveminds. Finally, robots, at least in many cases, are not (potentially) mortal, so they lack one of the most significant attributes of persons.
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Dec 27 2015, 10:09 PM
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Robots do not deserve human rights. Their tendencies are the direct consequences of human programming and, hence, reflect the particular biases of their programmers. (A fascist programmer, for example, could create a race of sapient fascist robots to vote his views into law.) Robots are potentially capable of unlimited (re)production and, thus, could subjugate humans to their rule by means of the normal democratic processes, thus effectively eliminating human political and moral autonomy. Some artificial intelligences are not countable and individually accountable; rather, they are undifferentiated hiveminds. Finally, robots, at least in many cases, are not (potentially) mortal, so they lack one of the most significant attributes of persons.
What about AI that contains the ability to change its own programming? And would you count an immortal but otherwise human person as a non-person? This resolution seems to cover subjugation as well.
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2-1 (not sure about SpiderJerusalem's vote :P )

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Seconds ago: Libetarian Republics voted for the World Assembly Resolution "AI Coexistence Protocol".
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Dec 27 2015, 10:09 PM
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Robots do not deserve human rights. Their tendencies are the direct consequences of human programming and, hence, reflect the particular biases of their programmers. (A fascist programmer, for example, could create a race of sapient fascist robots to vote his views into law.) Robots are potentially capable of unlimited (re)production and, thus, could subjugate humans to their rule by means of the normal democratic processes, thus effectively eliminating human political and moral autonomy. Some artificial intelligences are not countable and individually accountable; rather, they are undifferentiated hiveminds. Finally, robots, at least in many cases, are not (potentially) mortal, so they lack one of the most significant attributes of persons.
I quite agree that "robots" don't deserve legal recognition as persons. However, the only one of these critiques that the resolution doesn't account for is the last one, the piece about mortality. That's a philosophical or even religious question I won't try to get into - if you believe humans that live forever would thereby lose their legitimate expectation of civil rights, you shouldn't support such rights for AIs.

The biggest danger, simple demographic upheaval by swarms of suddenly-constructed AIs with voting rights, is neutralized by the reproduction clause in Paragraph 2. AIs will not be able to so drastically increase their population that they can become a majority of voters in any timeframe short of centuries, or decades at the least.

I'm afraid I don't see the trouble with hiveminds. If such entities are essentially collectively responsible for their actions, then nothing prevents laws from treating the entire entity as such; nor the opposite in the other case. If it has individually responsible members, they must be turned over to law enforcement if charged with a crime; any who hide them would face accessory charges just like human counterparts would.

Finally, I believe the definition of AI given in Paragraph 1 precludes the rest of these problems: actual AIs that a nation must recognize are explicitly required to be more than the mere playthings of their programmers: they must be capable of being their own beings, for want of better phrasing. Such entities are required to be indistinguishable from human minds in the exact ways we consider a human mind to be more than simply programs run on a biological computer, and thus both independent of intellectual slavemasters, and deserving of the rights due any other person.

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