On Sentience

“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but, ‘Can they suffer?’” – Jeremy Bentham Any discussion of the ethics of Artificial Intelligence is muddied by a social misunderstanding of the conceptual underpinnings of intelligence itself. Wikipedia defines Intelligence “a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the …

Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Research

As computing power continues to increase at a rapid pace mankind is beginning to ponder the ethics questions involved in the possible creation of artificial intelligence. If we succeed at creating artificial intelligence or AI then we have effectively created life to some degree and we must suddenly face many challenges that we have never …