Man-object, Interpersonal and Man-machine Relationships——An Ethical Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
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摘要
Traditional social ethics has always been centered on human relationships. In recent years, modern ethics began to systematically reflect the relationships between humans and objects, and the future ethics will need to account for the relationships between humans and intelligent machines. This is mainly because humans may be overtaken by machines in intelligence through which humans gain dominance over all other natural objects. On the ethical thinking of the man-machine relationship, an idea is to be inclined to do subtraction rather than addition. Specifically, we should give priority to and focus on limiting the means and abilities of intelligent machines rather than how to cultivate and set the value judgments of their friendliness. In other words, we should concentrate on how to limit the development of intelligent machines to specialization and miniaturization, especially keeping them within the scope of non-violence.
Traditional social ethics has always been centered on human relationships. In recent years, modern ethics began to systematically reflect the relationships between humans and objects, and the future ethics will need to account for the relationships between humans and intelligent machines. This is mainly because humans may be overtaken by machines in intelligence through which humans gain dominance over all other natural objects. On the ethical thinking of the man-machine relationship, an idea is to be inclined to do subtraction rather than addition. Specifically, we should give priority to and focus on limiting the means and abilities of intelligent machines rather than how to cultivate and set the value judgments of their friendliness. In other words, we should concentrate on how to limit the development of intelligent machines to specialization and miniaturization, especially keeping them within the scope of non-violence.
Traditional social ethics has always been centered on human relationships. In recent years, modern ethics began to systematically reflect the relationships between humans and objects, and the future ethics will need to account for the relationships between humans and intelligent machines. This is mainly because humans may be overtaken by machines in intelligence through which humans gain dominance over all other natural objects. On the ethical thinking of the man-machine relationship, an idea is to be inclined to do subtraction rather than addition. Specifically, we should give priority to and focus on limiting the means and abilities of intelligent machines rather than how to cultivate and set the value judgments of their friendliness. In other words, we should concentrate on how to limit the development of intelligent machines to specialization and miniaturization, especially keeping them within the scope of non-violence.
引文
James Barrat:Our Final Invention:Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era.Beijing:Publishing House of Electronics Industry,2016.
Nick Bostrom:Superintelligence:Paths,Dangers,Strategies.Beijing:CITIC Press Corporation,2015.
(1)The following discourse on historical ages is based on Ian Morris’s Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels:How Human Values Evolve, published by CITIC Press Corporation in 2016
(1)The paper wants to highlight the role of literature and art, and hopes that politicians and research fellows can see more related literature works and films where all kinds of possibilities, especially potential risks, are approached in a more imaginative, open and far-sighted way.
Nick Bostrom:Superintelligence:Paths,Dangers,Strategies.Beijing:CITIC Press Corporation,2015.
(1)The following discourse on historical ages is based on Ian Morris’s Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels:How Human Values Evolve, published by CITIC Press Corporation in 2016
(1)The paper wants to highlight the role of literature and art, and hopes that politicians and research fellows can see more related literature works and films where all kinds of possibilities, especially potential risks, are approached in a more imaginative, open and far-sighted way.