In the future, when AI keeps developing, we will have to come up with ethics, laws, and rules of behavior for it. I’ll take a simple example — the game Detroit: Become Human. Imagine that we really end up with such androids, who make decisions, influence the world, and interact with humans.
And here comes the question: by what moral standards will they live? Each nation, each culture has its own ethics. And right now I’m talking about peoples, about the general, not the individual.
What do we do if, when creating universal rules for AI, it turns out that the East has one morality, the West — another, and every culture has its own view on good and evil? That’s actually already the case. To avoid discrimination, it would make sense to create different versions of AI — one for each culture. But then AIs all over the world will act based on different laws. And to prevent conflict between them, we’d have to isolate them. But such isolation would very quickly lead to collapse. Technology can’t evolve in a vacuum. Cultures would get isolated along with their AI in their own world, and a clash of values would begin — not only between people, but also between machines.
The second option is to create one universal ethics system for all AI. But that is basically almost impossible. We’re, fuck, way too different. What’s considered normal in one culture might seem like a threat or insult in another. And if we try to unify it all into one system, a conflict becomes inevitable: whose morality becomes the “main” one?
Here’s another painful question: Should AI be restricted within certain cultures? If yes — it kind of becomes discrimination, but on the other hand — it’s for the greater good. But then who decides where the “border of normal” lies, and who gets to define it? And how do we avoid turning this all into dictatorship disguised as universal values?
Am I right in thinking that until humanity unites — like in utopias — into one global state, we won’t see a bright future? What do you think about this? Is there even a way out of this situation?
I feel like I’m going insane thinking about all this. My native language is not English, so some expressions might sound weird. I’ve only recently started getting interested in ethical questions about the future, so I’m really looking forward to your criticism and all your thoughts — I’d love to read them<3