A new approach to the ethics of AI based on the concept of subjective rate of time in speed superintelligence
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https://doi.org/10.26512/rfmc.v13i2.55074Mots-clés :
Artificial Intelligence. Superintelligence. Phenomenology of Time. Ethics.Résumé
This paper provides a new approach to the Philosophy of AI based on the concept of subjective rate of time, introduced by Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky in the paper The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2014). Considered an exotic property possessed by an artificial mind (AI) that operates much faster than the human mind, it relates to the speed of information processing: the faster a mind operates, the slower it perceives the external world. This novel concept raises a host of ethical questions, grounded in the assumption that a fast AI possesses sentience – the capacity for phenomenal experience, including the ability to feel pain and suffer. In this case, one objective year of suffering for a human being can correspond to a thousand subjective years of suffering for an artificial mind if it processes information one thousand times faster than a biological brain.
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