It is said by the faithful that God has the right to do whatever he pleases to humans because he created them. I disagree. Let's explore that idea:
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?
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 having the right to inflict suffering on humanity. Is it still a satisfying argument when we remove the conceits we allow for god?
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No we definitely don't have any rights to our own body. We all belong to God but he chose to give us a free will in hopes that we'll follow him and live for him.
So what would be your answer the scenario proposed in this question? Would you be justified in doing as you please to a person you created on the basis that they belong to you? If so, why so? If not, why not?
Okay I see where you are coming from so you were talking about AI. So you want me to use my mind and think about it as if I could create a real person.
Oh my goodness this is far streach for me because I'm not a scientist but if you create something though AI you could never use it to hurt others that number 1. You could never use it to do anything immoral, or wrong, or evil.
But if you put it together I don't see anything wrong with taking it apart again. I couldn't see it any different than taking Alexa apart. I was almost afraid to say her name because I hate to use it because of what it says when I do.
So I guess this is just about as far as I can go on this subject unless you could give me something else to go on.
But if you put it together I don't see anything wrong with taking it apart again. I couldn't see it any different than taking Alexa apart.
Alexa is not a person. Alexa is a program. Look at the examples i gave in the picture in the OP of artificial persons from film and tv. I use those as examples of the sort of AI we're discussing: Beings in their own right that have feelings, ambitions, fears, loves. The human experience.
If you were to create a being like that, would you honestly see it as nothing more than an object you could take apart?
