David J. Gunkel
@David_Gunkel
Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction.
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'Person, Thing, Embryo'
The recent decision by the StateOfAlabama_ Supreme Court is a good illustration of what can go wrong when decision making is constrained to operate with the mutually exclusive, either/or dichotomy of Person or Thing.
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David J. Gunkel StateOfAlabama_ Genetic algorithms: Evolutionary robotics.
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'With genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning, AIs have demonstrated the ability to discover solutions to complex problems that are innovative and often surprising to their human creators.
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David J. Gunkel StateOfAlabama_ These capabilities pose questions about the idea of AI agency and whether such systems can be said to possess something akin to an evolutionary impulse, a drive to optimize themselves that is separate from their creators' intentions.' (p.48)
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