What will humans do when robots have consciousness?

This is a premix of “Westworld” popular show made from film production The HBO will show up this Sunday evening on the second season. Excavation of events taking place in the second season raises fundamental questions of ethics where people in the near future will face them.

Based on the 1973 film, “Westworld” describes an area of futuristic games modeled after the Wild West, in which characters such as bartenders, prostitutes, policemen, bandits are robots programmed to interact with their human guests as naturally as possible. These intelligent machines see actions exactly as humans do. In fact, viewers are often confused or deceived about who the robot is and who the man is, reports The New York Times”, transmits Periscopi.

Robots, however, can behave as they wish. Some take on heroic roles, but others choose dark roles, such as by participating in torture, rape and murder, including the killing of non-human robots. Hospitals are designed not to harm guests; so there are acts of pure Sadism, with no punishment for their actions.

It's hard to say that things go wrong for people in the series “Westworld”. But we're interested in studying the premieres of the story like our viewing response to these robots tells about human nature and the future of technology.

The big concern is that we can one day create conscious machines - trust sensitive beings, desires, situations when morals and the capacity of suffering are highlighted. Nobody prevents us from doing this. Philosophers and scientists remain uncertain about how consciousness comes out of the material world, but few doubt that it can function. This suggests that the creation of conscious machines is possible.

Suppose, like many philosophers and scientists, that consciousness is born in a complex system that processes information. There is no reason to think that such a system can be made only by the flesh. Conscientious minds are more likely to become independent of a platform ʹ the product of a software system. It seems only a matter of time before we can imitate the actions of the human brain on our computers or build conscious minds of another type.

And even if someone believes that only biological systems can be conscious, this development is also within our reach possibly through a combination of artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. In fact, in the “Westworld”, it is suggested that armies are partly biological. We'll probably see them when their body bleeds.

If we created conscious beings, conventional morality tells us that it would be a mistake to harm even to the point that they are conscious and can suffer or be deprived of happiness. Just as it's wrong to torture animals, or to destroy children, it would be wrong to abuse conscious machines of the future.

But how will we know if our cars become conscious? Dekarti argued that our consciousness is beyond any doubt. In the case of others, we are never sure. Many of us enjoy, just for a moment, the idea that everyone else can be like a zombie laughing, crying, complaining, rejoicing. Maybe scientists will finally discover the strands of consciousness, and then we can prove it to our robots and animals. But it is certain that we will build cars that seem very conscious before we get to that point.

Everything that looks and acts like the army at “Westworld” will seem conscious of us, regardless of how consciousness appears in physical systems. In fact, experiments with Artificial Intelligence and robots have already shown how fast, we should attribute the feelings of cars that appear and behave as independent agents. Multiply of anthropomorphism: Do not think of a car with visible wires, artificial eyes and a sound that sounds like Syria (the wise application in iPhone smartphones), but a beautiful foreigner who engages in intelligent conversation and who may be more aware of your emotions than your marriage mate or the best friends you ever had. It would be overwhelming to view this creature as a person, regardless of your philosophical views, and regardless of how the creators were built.

This is what for the real viewers of “Westworld” matters. To the delight of the viewers, the makers of the series have produced a powerful philosophical work. It's something that stimulates you to sit at a seminar to hear if robots must be morally conscious. It's quite another to witness the suffering of such creatures, portrayed by such actors as Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton. You can still ask intellectual questions, but in your heart and your flesh you already know the answer.

By watching the show, you also find out how you feel about people who rape, torture and kill these robots. We have no idea how many people would behave like this in a place like “Westworld” (the picture means there is no shortage of such customers), but there's something disgusting about what they do. In this scenario, the armies of robots are more human, and the people who misuse them are monstrous.

Kant had strange views on animals, viewing them as simple things, without moral value, but insisted on their proper treatment because of implications for how they treat each other: “because what is cruel to the animals becomes difficult even in his dealings with humans.” We can certainly say the same about treating live robots. Even if we can be sure that they were not conscious and could not really suffer, their torture would hurt the tormenter greatly and, after all, other people in his life.

This may seem to be an extremely disturbing version of the entertainment of violent games. It has long been speculated that bringing violence into a virtual world desensifies people in violence. Evidence of such an effect proves to be weak. In fact, once the video games have become more real, violent crime rates have dropped.

But the prospect of building a country like “Westworld” is much more disturbing because the experience of harming a robot is not just like that of hurting a person. We have no idea what such, ethical or psychological fantasies would do us repeatedly, but there seems to be little reason to think it would be good.

The issues here lie beyond Sadism. Machines are designed to improve human life and one of the attractions of advanced Artificial Intelligence is the perspective of robot servants, and drivers (also known as self-moving machines). That's okay with the kind of cars we actually have, but when Artificial Intelligence is improving, we have a moral hazard.

After all, if we manage to build cars as smart as we do and, more importantly, cars that can feel it's not clear that it would be ethical that we use them to satisfy our appetites. The notion of genetic engineering a race of willing slaves is a figurative use of science fiction, where mankind is found to have done something terrible. Why would the production of sensitive robots be different?

For the first time in our history, we have the risk of building cars that only monsters can use as they wish./Periscopi/