Should We Make An AI Kill Switch or Give Robots Rights? – Futurism

In Brief Hank from CrashCourse explains in a YouTube video that our perception of humanity might differ in light of the upcoming age of AI. While he does cite many alternate views, he makes it clear that AI is a topic worth discussing.

Crashcourses Hank poses an excellent question at the start of his video. What if your closest friends are a set of extremely advanced robots? How would you know? Hank introduces the Turing Test, an assessment to determine the strength of an artificial intelligence (AI)program. If youspoke toa robot and wereunable to discern a difference between it and a human, then the AI capabilities of its programming would be exceptional.

Hank also spotlights opposing viewpoints which point out that while AImay be able to fool us into believing it is human, it may never truly encapsulate human thought, because humans themselves have yet to fully understand consciousness.

What do you think? If it talks like a human, walks like a human, behaves like a human, and feels like a humanis it human? Do differences in biology matter when the concepts of the mind are the same? Many question whether AI will need rights, and what those rights will look like. It is a question we must turn our attention to.

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Should We Make An AI Kill Switch or Give Robots Rights? - Futurism