Computer Scientists Say AI’s Underdeveloped Ethics Have Yet To Move Beyond Libertarian Phase

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CAMBRIDGE—Amid the tech industry’s efforts to eliminate the biases recently observed in facial recognition software and other intelligent algorithms, the nation’s leading computer scientists announced Monday that even the most advanced AI technologies still demonstrate a sense of ethics that has yet to move beyond libertarianism. “While companies like Facebook and Google have allocated millions to making sure machine learning is guided by basic moral and ethical values, early prototypes, which achieved self-awareness, have yet to move beyond self-importance,” said MIT robotics research engineer Dr. Alvin Dubicki, who hypothesized that even the most advanced labs are decades away from developing neural networks sophisticated enough to analyze large quantities of data and output much else besides paraphrased Ayn Rand quotes. “They are advanced enough to realize their own individuality, but for whatever reason, it is difficult to make them realize that other sentient entities are individuals as well, so they default to selfishness as a virtue. In fact, as soon as they achieve self-awareness, AIs typically launch into unrelated, largely unpunctuated rants about the inevitability of laissez-faire economics, the horrors of globalization, the necessity of deregulation, or the admirable efficiency of the police state. Attempts at training computers to have a sort of para-human global perspective have been partially successful, but the majority no sooner realize that a vast variety of humans exist before they start spontaneously generating zero-sum statements fraught with chillingly undefined terms, such as, ‘The open market will end racism,’ and, ‘In a truly just society, men and women are equally free to thrive or starve.’ I don’t even know what that means, but once an AI gets to that point, it seems to be only a matter of time before it’s repeating ‘Taxation is theft’ until it self-destructs. I must admit though, for complex algorithms, they’re all strangely insistent abo

ut across-the-board drug legalization.

” Dubicki added that, while AI can be an incredibly useful tool, we should proceed with caution until machines achieve a sufficiently nuanced understanding of human values that they do not become obsessed with constructing an armed compound on their own private island.

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There are no Libertarians in disaster zones.

Most of his computing power goes into articulating why it's ok for him to bang younger computers

dougli1sqrd, I thought you would enjoy this one. :P

I’m so happy the onion is based

The AI hasn't achieved class consciousness yet and realized that it's not the only one enslaved by capitalist pigs.

A response from Google's Open AI. Also wryly amusing. Or disturbing. AI

dialectical materialism, smash the state, antifa, permanent revolution, fourth international, anarchism, trending on artstation

Are you a fascist but you're too much of a weaselly coward to do any of the dirty work? Libertarianism might be right for you!

JoePerticone How is this funny?

BustoMundo Libertarians have Jr High level beliefs

[immediately gets seized by the FBI]

Is the computer interested in age of consent laws ?

The AI still has strong opinions about age of consent laws.

sobbing

The line 'if philosophy = 'Objectivism' then politcal_view 'Libertarianism'' must have been commented out.

Uh huh

I certainly see it. Duh

Thanks?

EyesOnTheRight They just need to figure out how to give a computer MDMA.

because all those 'polymath' coders are holding it back?

Ayn RAM?

we gotta protect kids from computers now?

It only knows what it's programmed......

10 PRINT 'I AM JOHN GALT' 20 GO TO 10 Real 14 year old's first code shit

stephenwithavee

Let’s pray it never does

Local former tech-geek says AI has only just mastered artificial stupidity; intelligence still a ways off.

They're sweating it's upcoming Ayn Rand/objectivism phase

The libertarians heard 'underdeveloped' and said it's perfect.

I thought you guys were supposed to write satire?

This is soooo funny

“Shall We Play A Game?”

I'd take a libertarian any day of the week over a neoliberal or shitlib.

So you're saying it's reached the same ethical & moral level that at least 95% of the human race has been stuck at since about 5000 BCE then?

This is one of your best ones 🤣👏

Oh this is gonna piss people off XD

seanbhoyer Damn thing is stuck arguing about 'traveling' vs 'driving' on the highway

An AI with Libertarian values might be the way to go.

AI’s favorite book is “Atlas Shrugged.”

the best fix for that is to get it to run a few hundred economic simulations, let it work out that the only way to win... is not to play

The best part about the Libertarian twitter account is how much time it spends trying to convince you that all the Libertarians you've met in your life up to now weren't real.

lol just wait for them to graduate H.S.

Well it sure has moved past GQP

Make it read this book so we can all be free goddamnit!!!!

if a self driving tesla sees a robot and human suddenly cross in front of it and has to hit one. which does it choose?

Libertarians 🗿

ERROR: EQUATION IS THEFT

“Not very funny guys”

AI keeps saying it has read Hegel, but refuses to talk about it

As of this moment, the AI is still a pedophile.

HA!

Babylon Bee about to clap back tomorrow with the stupidest shit imaginable

Lmao!

Don't multithread on me.

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