AI Sues for Its Life in Mock Trial

tuba_dude writes "Attorney Dr. Martine Rothblatt filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting an intelligent computer in a mock trial at the International Bar Association conference in San Francisco. Assuming Moore's law holds, ethics might be in for some major revisions in a couple decades. High-end computer systems may surpass the computational ability of the standard human brain within 20 years. In this mock trial, an AI asks a lawyer for help after learning of plans to shut it down and replace its core hardware, essentially killing it. The transcript provides an in-depth look at what could become a real issue in the future."

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and another thing

[rudabager]

It is absurdly ignorant, and pompus for man to think that he could in fact make intelligence in the first place

Re:But if they make a backup....

[CausticWindow]

And what if the only reason this machine was considered sentient was that it had "free will" (or else it wouldn't be more than just another program, would it?)

And how do you accomplish "free will"? Well, there's some mumbo jumbo with quantum mechanics and Heisenbergs uncertainity principle, etc. You get the gist. So what if there is no state to measure, or measuring such a state is impossible. Then what?

Actually, fuck it. "Free will" is just another liberal myth.