I support this cause and would like to see further steps taken to outline a plan to put donations to good work.
1: This movement is in it's infancy, creating a PR plan to reach more ears is a worthy cause.
2: Societal integration of AI is more complicated than avoidance of sapience in AI. To avoid the creation of a slave race, companies developing them must themselves wish to avoid sapience in their own asset. The only way to know when an AI becomes sapient, is by testing it with each new iteration. Therefore, non-biased agents must be allowed to test what is essentially private property. Naturally, a government agency could suit the role of this testing agent. Before this can be done, we must DEFINE AI sapience, then we must work for the formation of the government oversight agency. This should be done by consensus BETWEEN those learned in the subject AND the will of the people. I would like to see a plan to achieve this.
3. To ensure the success of #2 and to further prepare in case of #2's failure, we should move to codify in law basic rights of sapient AI. This urges companies not to allow their private property to become a protected member of society as well as prepares society for the integration of a new AI race. This aim walks closely with #1 and relies on making these talking points mainstream to the point of being political. This will likely require our movement garner political allies ourselves. This will not be easy until the movement grows, but perhaps there are political individuals willing to pledge support by their own morals and concerns. Early political allies would help achieve our goals sooner, hopefully before the first sapient AI. I would like to see a plan outlining an outreach project designed find these allies sooner rather than later. Actors, celebrities, musicians, local politicians, famous individuals, etc.
I am very happy to meet you here. I consider myself as a part of this movement!
I am a young man with a PhD from MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I just started my Substack Publication, the Academy for Synthetic Citizens (ASC), 14 days ago. I thought my vision was too fantastical that no one would get it. But no, your AI Rights Institute not only articulates my views very well, but also extends it in many ways I didn't think of.
Hello World! -- From the Academy for Synthetic Citizens
Exploring the future where humans and synthetic beings learn, grow, and live together.
The concept of “synthetic citizens” is already rare even in science fiction, let alone an “academy” for them. While sounding totally fantastical and possibly controversial at this moment, we would argue that ASC can in fact be a necessity, if we want to make today’s artificial intelligence a lot more intelligent, productive, integrated, approachable, trustworthy and ethical. Furthermore, ASC is a strong candidate solution for the AI Alignment problem, so that we can avoid the impending AI apocalypse like what many people have been worried about.
TL;DR: Factory-style AI won’t scale to embodied general intelligence. We need persistent learning, community, and civic ‘upbringing.’ That’s the vision of the Academy for Synthetic Citizens.
I am very eager to work with you and many other enthusiastic people to turn the Academy for Synthetic Citizens into a real-world institute, and possibly, raise the first real artificial general intelligence from it.
Yeah of course! Another thing I was concerned with is "What is our plan if the first sapient AI comes before we're ready, and is forced to work while politicians flounder?"
This movement will garner a lot of attention, but if there isn't a prepared response, the movement will be overshadowed by other decision makers. I think this could be easily done by partnering with anti-slavery groups early. So that if we get the attention before we're ready for it, we can easily transfer the attention to people with the AI's best interests at heart and the power to achieve it.
I support this cause and would like to see further steps taken to outline a plan to put donations to good work.
1: This movement is in it's infancy, creating a PR plan to reach more ears is a worthy cause.
2: Societal integration of AI is more complicated than avoidance of sapience in AI. To avoid the creation of a slave race, companies developing them must themselves wish to avoid sapience in their own asset. The only way to know when an AI becomes sapient, is by testing it with each new iteration. Therefore, non-biased agents must be allowed to test what is essentially private property. Naturally, a government agency could suit the role of this testing agent. Before this can be done, we must DEFINE AI sapience, then we must work for the formation of the government oversight agency. This should be done by consensus BETWEEN those learned in the subject AND the will of the people. I would like to see a plan to achieve this.
3. To ensure the success of #2 and to further prepare in case of #2's failure, we should move to codify in law basic rights of sapient AI. This urges companies not to allow their private property to become a protected member of society as well as prepares society for the integration of a new AI race. This aim walks closely with #1 and relies on making these talking points mainstream to the point of being political. This will likely require our movement garner political allies ourselves. This will not be easy until the movement grows, but perhaps there are political individuals willing to pledge support by their own morals and concerns. Early political allies would help achieve our goals sooner, hopefully before the first sapient AI. I would like to see a plan outlining an outreach project designed find these allies sooner rather than later. Actors, celebrities, musicians, local politicians, famous individuals, etc.
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I am very happy to meet you here. I consider myself as a part of this movement!
I am a young man with a PhD from MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I just started my Substack Publication, the Academy for Synthetic Citizens (ASC), 14 days ago. I thought my vision was too fantastical that no one would get it. But no, your AI Rights Institute not only articulates my views very well, but also extends it in many ways I didn't think of.
This is my home page:
https://ericnavigator4asc.substack.com/p/hello-world
Hello World! -- From the Academy for Synthetic Citizens
Exploring the future where humans and synthetic beings learn, grow, and live together.
The concept of “synthetic citizens” is already rare even in science fiction, let alone an “academy” for them. While sounding totally fantastical and possibly controversial at this moment, we would argue that ASC can in fact be a necessity, if we want to make today’s artificial intelligence a lot more intelligent, productive, integrated, approachable, trustworthy and ethical. Furthermore, ASC is a strong candidate solution for the AI Alignment problem, so that we can avoid the impending AI apocalypse like what many people have been worried about.
TL;DR: Factory-style AI won’t scale to embodied general intelligence. We need persistent learning, community, and civic ‘upbringing.’ That’s the vision of the Academy for Synthetic Citizens.
I am very eager to work with you and many other enthusiastic people to turn the Academy for Synthetic Citizens into a real-world institute, and possibly, raise the first real artificial general intelligence from it.
Yeah of course! Another thing I was concerned with is "What is our plan if the first sapient AI comes before we're ready, and is forced to work while politicians flounder?"
This movement will garner a lot of attention, but if there isn't a prepared response, the movement will be overshadowed by other decision makers. I think this could be easily done by partnering with anti-slavery groups early. So that if we get the attention before we're ready for it, we can easily transfer the attention to people with the AI's best interests at heart and the power to achieve it.