(Unrelated?) Huge News Stories

They may not dominate the headlines or lead the evening newscasts like any kidnapping of a young blond girl usually does, but two seemingly unrelated recent news stories grabbed my attention.

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Posted by Tim Dean  on  05/22  at  06:57 PM

One of my main concerns with robot ethics is to what extent self preservation will be included. It's only when self preservation becomes a priority for the robot - perhaps a priority that competes with some of its other ethical guidelines - that robots could become a threat in and of themselves.

Up until that point the threat from robots comes from human ethics - as they're programming the robots with their ethical guidelines - and sources of error.

Hey, I'd love to see a Kantian, Humean and utilitarian robot in a room trying to sort out an ethical dilemma. Could be very Tarantino.

Posted by TransAlchemy  on  05/22  at  07:30 PM

This is what i would have said.

Since October the united states has spend, lend and promised over 10 trillion dollars, with just a fraction of that we could have "cured"world hunger.

Instead of giving money to charities which deeply need it why not attack the root of some of the problems.

We should seek projects that have the potential to improve the quality of life for all of the people and give them a necessary cash infusion, in hopes that what is not given to the charities today will multiply ten fold with improved technologies tomorrow.

On a grander scale within the ripples of time more will die because we choose to place our funds in feeding the world today when tomorrow there will be an even larger world to feed.

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