The Questions · the second mind · morals
Does it have morals?
It will give you a considered ethical answer on request. The question is whether that is the thing anyone actually means by having morals.
The test was never having values.
It is examining your own and choosing against them.
What this settles
Which sets a bar that most of the argument never reaches. Coded-in values are values; so are yours. What separates them is whether the holder can put them on trial and rule against himself.
What it leaves open
Can it examine its own values and choose against them?
Raised in this footing and not answered anywhere in the work. The test is settled; whether the machine can sit it is not.
Also asked as
- How is something coded into a machine different from something coded into you?
- Can AI have real morals?
Where this is worked out
The AI Framework
Can AI have real morals?
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Installed values
Why having values was never the test, and whether anything can examine its own and choose against them. 1 of the 2 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.
- Can it examine its own values and choose against them?not explored yet