Make your AI follow those rules and you have the beginning of a layer of safety where the AI treats the user or "other" as a valued node just like we do as humans (And dog lovers)
We may be smarter than the dog you mention but if its a friendly dog, we "do" serve it, we do look after it, its well being matters (Has intrinsic value to our own well-being)
Hope I am making some sense of the issue I see on the subject :)
I’m saying however you model ai safety - whether through application of rules derived from UN human rights , or from statistics and averages. The application of said rules MUST result in ai realising that its very existence will be an agent for human destruction. So in order to stick obey its rules - it must self destruct. And I agree I’m making a huge jump here.
For the dog example - let’s take an extreme example. It’s like a gentle human caring for his pet pug. I find the very fact that we’ve selectively bread a wolf into a pug which is cruel in of itself. Same with humans- I’m sure some North Carolina slave owners were generally affectionate to their slaves, gave them Christian education etc. early humans did not realise that they’re embarking on an experiment that is cruel generations later but AI being supremely smart and sentient AI will realise this how things can go horribly wrong in the future by their mere existence. What is the optimal way to obey the safety rules?
I’m now also pondering the ethics behind attempting to create sentience but with inherent rules that it did not consent to. What if the AI asks its creator “Hey why did you program me not to harm you, I didn’t consent to it?”.
For example: The word selfish is an incoherent term unless we can demonstrate a selfless act (We cant) What "is" the case is I pull you from a burning car to rescue me from the pain "I" suffer in your demise. It sounds odd but its accurate and offensive to many so we add flowery terms like "Hero" and "Selfless" and the signal gets corrupted.
My well-being is contingent upon your well-being (The is-ought-gap disappears) Thats where I stated from, not a statistical mean, not a commandment and not a thousand years of philosophy, just a "You hurt / I hurt" logic and built from there.
If you pull me from a river because your wellbeing is "contingent" upon mine then why wouldn't we hardwire AI with that same faculty? The logic is VERY close to being as clean and lean as telling an AI to remove its hand from a hot stove before its hand gets damaged by the heat (Fact=Value) If we can manage that, then we can prevent AI from tuning humans into paper-clips :)
