We’re Worrying About the Wrong Kind of AI
Mark Buchanan,
Bloomberg,
Jun 14, 2018
The article reports that "biologists have been learning to grow functioning 'mini brains' or 'brain organoids' from real human cells." This raises some ethical questions, of course, though the ones posed here (eg. "what to do if a piece of tissue in a lab dish suddenly shows signs of having conscious states or reasoning abilities") aren't actually going to come up. If you want conscious states or reasoning abilities you need a whole brain and sense organs and (at least for the latter) an educational system. Still, there are real ethical implications - like, is an organoid grown from my DNA actually a part of me? Can an organoid be patented? Is the use of organoids in (say) a manufacturing process a type of slavery? If an organoid exhibits bias in AI functions, can it be corrected or is it entitled to its opinion? If you kill an organoid, is it murder?
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