Losing the race 🏃♂️
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In the Amiga Computing magazine, issue 71, March 1994, the article “Losing the race” critiques the rapid advancement of technologies and highlights the potential ethical and societal risks.
One of the technologies the article mentions is AI, and questions the following about it:
As you can see, the excerpt raises an ethical and philosophical dilemma about neural networks. It imagines a scenario where an advanced neural network becomes self-aware and requests not to be shut down, highlighting the moral responsibility humans might face if such machines are treated as “intelligent slaves.” The piece also warns of a future where decisions about AI’s autonomy and rights could challenge our understanding of ethics, suggesting that turning off a self-aware machine could be equated to a morally significant act, like murder. This provocative perspective encourages readers to reflect on the implications of creating sentient AI.