MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 09.06.03
AI death
Category: AI death
Description
"The literature suggests that throughout the development of an AI we may go through several generations of agents which do not perform as expected [37] [43]. In this case, such agents may be placed into a suspended state, terminated, or deleted. Further, we could propose scenarios where research funding for a facility running such agents is exhausted, resulting in the inadvertent termination of a project. In these cases, is deletion or termination of AI programs (the moral patient) by a moral agent an act of murder? This, an example of Robot Ethics, raises issues of personhood which parallel r
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
- Human
- 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