From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!cutler
Newsgroups: net.ai
Title: Re: The Mind"s I
Article-I.D.: yale-com.707
Posted: Sat Jan 22 02:38:52 1983
Received: Sun Jan 23 07:59:09 1983
References: uwvax.731

Concerning intelligent machines...how can you expect a conscious entity
with roughly the same intelligence as yourself (assuming it understands
human knowledge and interactions and learns from experience and all this
implies)  to do all your dirty work for you?  Is this a reasonable assumption?
What might cause it to obey you without fail?  Will you turn it off?  If it's
as smart as a human, wouldn't this be murder? And if you do turn it off,
what will you have gained?  Anything with the level of intelligence that
we ascribe to humanity will have a free will and do what it wants.  Unless
of course you deprive it of the ability to learn and create in which case
you just have a very sophisticated but STATIC program.

					Ben Cutler
					decvax!yale-comix!cutler