: Re: Can anyone direct me to writers' resources on AI or robotic ethics? I am in the process of writing a science fiction novel that will involve a large quantity and variety of synthetic life

There is one simple problem with describing ethics as algorithms; there are too many different opinions on what's right and wrong! (Or if 'right' and 'wrong' even exist.)

Asimov, for example, had his robots follow a very simple ethic code (no wordplay intended!). As a result, Asimov's robots can't make difficult decisions. A robot would not be able to cope with a situation where it must kill a terrorist to save someone else's life, for instance.

Will your synthetic life forms all follow the same ethical guidelines, or will different 'species' (or models?) have different ideas of what is right and wrong?

Once you've settled on a set of ethical rules, I don't think you need to get too technical with the actual coding. Even nowadays, programming requires less technical details, and enables one to simply write what he wants done. (As someone expressed it, "Nowadays, you deal with the what and let the code deal with the how.)

In short, a simple algorithm should do, as long as it doesn't leave any holes.

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