彼得·辛格

2023年5月8日

通过维基共享。这是一种认为结果拒绝人生的内在道德价值。普林斯顿大学生物伦理学家彼得·辛格长期前景——谁是最著名的祝福杀婴——现在比较堕胎关掉电脑。他首先声称应该人工智能成为“意识”,关闭它就相当于杀死一个是最高的道德价值(对他来说,如下所述,人类不需要)。从雅虎新闻故事:我们问国际知名教授道德哲学家彼得•辛格AI是否应该有人权如果它就会意识到自己的存在。而歌手教授不相信ChatGPT操作系统意识或自我意识,如果这是改变他认为它应该给一些道德地位。“其他自我意识众生的状态,”他说。他处于待发状态比较有自知之明AI结束一个人的生活。“所有条件相同的情况下,我们不应该关掉它如果它变得自我意识,”他说。强大的吗? Yes. Living? No. Sorry. AIs may become very powerful and have great monetary value, but they would never have intrinsic moral worth . Being a living organism is the first predicate to moral value. You can’t kill or harm that which is inanimate. You can only destroy or damage it. Moreover, an AI would never be truly conscious. It would always be limited by its programming, no matter how sophisticated or self-coded. In other words, it could not truly think, but only mimic thought and intellectualism. And, it would be utterly mechanistic, and hence, never able to achieve transcendence or truly create. To understand Singer’s perspective: He doesn’t believe that a human has moral value simply because he or she is human. Rather, value has to be earned, primarily be being self-aware or able to value life. He argues that self-aware entities are “persons” — including some animals. He also believes that non-self-aware beings — including human infants, unborn babies, and people who have serious dementia, persistent unconsciousness or minimal consciousness — are not persons. Non-persons, in his view, have lower moral value than persons, and indeed, can be killed or used instrumentally for the benefit of persons, such as being experimented upon. Thus, Singer has argued that cognitively disabled humans should have been used to research hepatitis and HIV vaccines rather than chimpanzees. No wonder Singer compares turning off a non-sentient AI machine to abortion: But, according to Peter Singer, that doesn’t mean we can’t stop AI in its tracks before it becomes self-aware. “I think that’s more like terminating a pregnancy . . . so I would say it’s okay to turn off an AI that predictably will become self-aware if you leave it running, but isn’t as yet.” The Collapse of Thought So, killing an unborn baby — a nascent human being with a beating heart — is akin to turning off a sophisticated computer. Talk about an ethically stunted outlook. That Singer wins prestigious international philosophy awards tells us all we need to know about contemporary intellectualism’s profound moral collapse. Cross-posted at The Corner.