A New Charter of Ethics and Rights of Artificial Consciousness in a Human World
Markian Hromiak
arXiv Preprint Archive October 12, 2020 preprint
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that artificially conscious agents should receive human-like rights and proposes defining consciousness for social strong AI as observable human-like creativity, which the authors treat as evidence of first-person functionality. Synthesizes existing human and robot rights sources into an additive charter intended to complement the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
Abstract
Taking the stance that artificially conscious agents should be given human-like rights, in this paper we attempt to define consciousness, aggregate existing universal human rights, analyze robotic laws with roots in both reality and science fiction, and synthesize everything to create a new robot-ethical charter. By restricting the problem-space of possible levels of conscious beings to human-like, we succeed in developing a working definition of consciousness for social strong AI which focuses on human-like creativity being exhibited as a third-person observable phenomenon. Creativity is then extrapolated to represent first-person functionality, fulfilling the first/third-person feature of consciousness. Next, several sources of existing rights and rules, both for humans and robots, are analyzed and, along with supplementary informal reports, synthesized to create articles for an additive charter which compliments the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Finally, the charter is presented and the paper concludes with the conditions for amending the charter, as well as recommendations for further charters.