MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 09.06.01
AI rights and responsibilities
Category: AI rights and responsibilities
Description
"We note literature—which gives us the domain termed Robot Rights—addressing the rights of the AI itself as we develop and implement it. We find arguments against [38] the affordance of rights for artificial agents: that they should be equals in ability but not in rights, that they should be inferior by design and expendable when needed, and that since they can be designed not to feel pain (or anything) they do not have the same rights as humans. On a more theoretical level, we find literature asking more fundamental questions, such as: at what point is a simulation of life (e.g. artificial in
From Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Subdomain
- 7.5 AI welfare and rights
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Other
Subdomain definition: Ethical considerations regarding the treatment of potentially sentient AI entities, including discussions around their potential rights and welfare, particularly as AI systems become more advanced and autonomous.
How other frameworks describe this risk
Other entries from Meek2016
- Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Existential Risks
- Unethical decision making
- Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks
- Privacy
- Human dignity/respect
- Decision making transparency
- Safety
- Law abiding
- Inequality of wealth
- Societal manipulation
- AGI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Existential risks
- Direct competition with humans