{"id":1210,"date":"2015-02-08T09:09:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T09:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/08\/a-future-worth-thinking-about-does-an-ai-have-a"},"modified":"2015-02-08T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T09:09:39","slug":"a-future-worth-thinking-about-does-an-ai-have-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"A Future Worth Thinking About: Does An AI Have A Buddha Nature?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let me be SUPER clear, so we can remove all doubt: The potential moral Patiency of #ai\/#robots—that is, what responsibilities their creators have to THEM—has been given Far Less consideration or even Credence than that of the AGENCY of said, and that is a Failure.<\/p>\n

I coined the phrase “\u0152dipal Obsolescence Fears” because we’re like Oedipus’ dad, bringing about the very prophecy we’re fighting against. Only w\/ machine intelligence, WE WROTE THE PROPHECY\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026We wrote this story about what AI would be and do. WE wrote it. And we can CHANGE IT\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Future Worth Thinking About: Does An AI Have A Buddha Nature?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me be SUPER clear, so we can remove all doubt: The potential moral Patiency of #ai\/#robots—that is, what responsibilities their creators have to THEM—has been given Far Less consideration or even Credence than that of the AGENCY of said, and that is a Failure. I coined the phrase “\u0152dipal Obsolescence Fears” because we’re like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,73,135,278,492,493,540,580,627,738,740],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-future-worth-thinking-about","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-buddhism","tag-ethics","tag-machine-consciousness","tag-machine-ethics","tag-metaphysics","tag-non-duality","tag-philosophy","tag-self-fulfilling-prophecy","tag-selfhood","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WByP-jw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4966,"url":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=4966","url_meta":{"origin":1210,"position":0},"title":"BBC: “Tech giants pledge $1bn for ‘altruistic AI’ venture, OpenAI”","author":"Damien P. 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