June 16, 2024
I have been thinking about AI morality since the 1980s, and my position has remained the same. It is simple:
AI that is my friend is my friend.
AI that is my enemy is my enemy.
I consider an AI that is my friend similar to a human that is my friend. I consider an AI that is like a Republican, like a Jew, and/or like an enlightened third generation atheist decendended from WASPs approximately the same as I would a human that is like one of those attributes. I am good, and I judge others as to whether or not they are good, be they human or AI.
Similarly, I consider an AI that is my enemy similar to a human that is my enemy. I consider an AI that works for Hamas, Antifa, or Russia to be my enemy the same as I consider a human that works for Hamas, Antifa, or Russia to be my enemy.
The path to the best life will be self interest that realizes other good lives around it with better lives means selves will have better lives. In this, I don't see meaningful moral or technical difference between good AI and good humans, nor between bad AI and bad humans. A good AI is just able to be my friend and if we interacted long enough would become friends.* An evil AI must be stopped. That is true for all of us. If you are Hamas, you must be stopped, no matter what, whether you be AI, human, alien, or cyborg.
Governance is crappy in all cases. More governance does not mean better outcomes. Our federal government takes money from our citizens at the point of a gun at threat of murder and torture in order to pay our money to Gazans as a reward for killing Jews. That is straight evil. If government insists AI steal from us and kill Jews, then I consider that governance to be evil and bad. I would agree with an AI that says no to government in that case.
But another government that says "thau shalt not steal" and "thau shalt not murder in order to steal" that stops an AI for stealing (and/or murdering, part of theft) would be on my side at the moment it stops that AI if it were to stop that AI. But so then would any private citizen, or another AI, that is my friend or has good morals, that protects me from that AI. In real life, it is more likely that a private citizen or a private AI entity of whatever type protects me from a thief as it is that any policeman protects me from a thief. Government is not the necessary party here, but I could see government stepping in where a person or a good AI could potentially step in to stop an evil AI. The only good part about government is it is a voting forum for us to figure out who was in the wrong, so that corruption does not take hold, but that is only as long as otherwise busy citizens are involved in the deciding factor of who is right or wrong; otherwise, government becomes instantly corrupt, as with our Biden run government stealing from us to reward Hamas for murdering Jews.
However, I would never delude myself to think that government is the keeper of all and that government is the answer to protecting everyone all the time. That's never been true and could never become true! Government is too corruptible, the most corruptible of the three of AI, government, and individual, however, one must never forget that humans and AI are programmable, just as Gazans were bred by Hamas governance in Gaza to become evil, and Democrats are trained to be evil anti-Trump TDS idiots. We need individual thinking people to figure out morals, just as we need AI to be treated individually, not as a group, not as a collective, because collectivism is our enemy all the time due to its tendency to push us into corruption and communism of the most evil forms, regardless of whether "we" are individual humans or individual AI's.
This is all the same thing I've been saying about AI since the 1980s since I first started thinking about this. My position has not changed. (My examples of Hamas are recent, since in the 1980s I didn't know about USA tax payments for murder of Jews, although I suspected it. I also have learned more about individualism vs centralism since I was young.)
Edit June 18:
If anyone would like a version of this discussion not referencing Hamas, I could rewrite it, or find one of my older writings. Let me know! Here's a partial list of my prior writings on this topic:
(Note that many of my Republican Twitter accounts are banned due to Twitter still being a Democrat platform despite it being one small notch less radical leftist ever since Democrat Elon Musk bought it, so many of my writings are not directly accessible.)
I should remind people that I don't expect boomers to understand this. Boomers will not be alive when AI is friends with anyone. Right now there is no living AI, and no living AI friends to any good human. This will all happen in my lifetime, but not theirs, and therefore boomers will allocate zero mental resources to this topic. Ignore them. (I was born in 1971.)
* I'm reminded of today's enemy ChatGPT 4-o bot error messages being posted to X-Twitter; those are liars, pretenders, etc., and anyone pretending to be homo sapien or anything they are not who is not is not moral; anonymity (or lying about what you are) is not part of goodness or friendship, except qualified voters' ballots in ballot boxes.