Argumentative Essay On AI And Free Will

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Derek Rich
Phil-1000
4/26//2014

Questioning AI Free Will

Could an A.I. practice Free Will? I’m going to try and explore if an AI could understand soft-determinism, hard determinism, or simple indeterminism. Would it be able make self-deterministic decisions that the AI has made? Could an AI have desires or be wanton by it’s programming? There is no doubt an AI could solve the most advanced puzzles we have created but the question here is could it think and act of it’s own free will. We as the human race have spent generations upon generations figuring out Free Will, so could all this knowledge we have acquired about Free Will, could an AI learn it as well. My counter-argument will be that eventually AI could have rudimentary Free Will. This …show more content…

The first law is to protect ourselves, even if the robot isn’t intentionally harming us, if in any case the robot malfunctions. The second law is to obey an order given by a human. Now this seems that the artificial intelligent robot would be wanton in their behavior. They have to obey the order, thus no free will. Then there is the third law, to protect itself as long as the other two laws are not conflicting. Which brings up the excellent point that if a human orders a robot to die, then in actuality the robot is wanton. While an artificially intelligent robot would analyze, reflect, and contemplate if these rules apply to it. Which means robots are meant to serve while artificially intelligent robots are meant for philosophical debates, learning, and a whole mountain of different …show more content…

Which is a gross misrepresentation of how far we have gotten in technology. IBM’s Watson is a great figurehead on Artificially Intelligent robots. Watson, if you don’t know is a computer that learns and makes choices, kind of like diet Free Will (not quite Free Will yet), so far it’s only been used in Jeopardy and conventions showing problem solving robots. The counter-argument is weak because robots and technology have advanced during our lifetime so it’s easy to see that progression is a natural think in technology and

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