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Patent Granted for Ethical AI

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 10, 2003 @11:51PM from the making-a-more-human-computer dept.

BandwidthHog writes "Marriage counselor and ethics author codifies human virtues and vices, then patents it as Ethical AI. Seems vague, but he's got high hopes: 'This could be a big money-making operation for someone who wants to develop it,' and 'The patent shows someone who has knowledge of the A.I. field how to make the invention.'" I can't wait for the kinder, gentler vending machine.

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Re:Who's this guy? by anonymous+loser · 2003-07-11 00:16 · Score: 5, Informative

There is nothing in the patent that says he's deciding ethics and morality.

He has simply developed a system which makes it possible to codify a systme of ethics, then make decisions based upon that structure. The ethics in question are not predetermined by the patent or the author, they are part of the system you build in order to create an ethical AI.