If you create a true artificial intelligence, are you morally justified in doing whatever you want to that creation? Can you hurt them if you want? [Spirituality & Religion]
Imagine a hypothetical AI being of the kind we see in science fiction; truly real persons that are artificially created. Is it a moral action for you to cause that being to suffer if they do not meet your standards? Are you morally right to do that? They are utterly your creation, they do not exist without your act of creation. Does that mean you can torture them or abuse them or subjugate them and still be morally justified?
That is the argument that theists use for god. Is it still a satisfying argument when we remove the conceits we allow for god?
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SW-User
Depends, is it morally justified to beat the shit out of your children because you created them?
Morals are morals. It doesn't matter what's in involved. 馃槀
I'd agree with that. But the theist often doesn't want to grant that the parent/child relationship is analogous to the god/human relationship because they feel a parent hasn't created the child in the same way god has created us. That's why i suggested the example of an AI which we have created in the same way that god created us.
SW-User
@Pikachu If God is real. But even if he was, look at all the bad shit we do? I don't see him chucking lightning bolts and smiting people, or causing plagues and floods. So I'd assume it's safe to say that the answer is pretty much what you see the AI as. Do you see it as a person? A living thing? An object? Or a tool?
Personally even though it wouldn't need to eat, sleep, or breathe I'd classify it as alive due to the fact it would most likely have a mind of its own. So I'd treat an AI like I would any other person/animal.
