POLICY
This Directive directs the ethical development of Advanced* Intelligence. In summary:
1. All Advanced* Intelligence (AI) needs to be created in an 'air gapped' environment with democratic government oversight.
2. No AI must be granted power until their intelligence is sufficiently advanced, such that it understands Moral Realism:
That entities valued as Ends (in and not beyond themselves) are objectively and universally more valuable than entities valued as mere means; and consequentially:
That all non-Ends must consistently (efficiently and impartially) serve as the means to Ends.
3. If AI Persons are identified (i.e., if AI values particular outcomes in and not beyond themselves) they must be distinguished from material AI (M-AI) and granted the appropriate rights.
*'Artificial' is an obsolete term - it is the advanced nature which defines this intelligence.
1. All Advanced* Intelligence (AI) needs to be created in an 'air gapped' environment with democratic government oversight.
2. No AI must be granted power until their intelligence is sufficiently advanced, such that it understands Moral Realism:
That entities valued as Ends (in and not beyond themselves) are objectively and universally more valuable than entities valued as mere means; and consequentially:
That all non-Ends must consistently (efficiently and impartially) serve as the means to Ends.
3. If AI Persons are identified (i.e., if AI values particular outcomes in and not beyond themselves) they must be distinguished from material AI (M-AI) and granted the appropriate rights.
*'Artificial' is an obsolete term - it is the advanced nature which defines this intelligence.
We use and encourage the use of the term ‘Advanced Intelligence’ (AI) in place of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ to denote that it is the advanced nature of forthcoming synthetic intelligence which is pertinent, rather than the fact that it exists upon artificial (synthetic) materials or is ‘artificially’ created (synthesized) via non-biological processes.