التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Synthesizing Methuselah: The Question of Artificial Agelessness. |
| المؤلفون: |
Gibson RB; Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. |
| المصدر: |
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees [Camb Q Healthc Ethics] 2024 Jan; Vol. 33 (1), pp. 60-75. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 22. |
| نوع المنشور: |
Journal Article |
| اللغة: |
English |
| بيانات الدورية: |
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9208482 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1469-2147 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09631801 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Camb Q Healthc Ethics Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE; MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: |
Original Publication: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, c1992- |
| مستخلص: |
As biological organisms, we age and, eventually, die. However, age's deteriorating effects may not be universal. Some theoretical entities, due to their synthetic composition, could exist independently from aging-artificial general intelligence (AGI). With adequate resource access, an AGI could theoretically be ageless and would be, in some sense, immortal. Yet, this need not be inevitable. Designers could imbue AGIs with artificial mortality via an internal shut-off point. The question, though, is, should they? Should researchers curtail an AGI's potentially endless lifespan by deliberately making it mortal? It is this question that this article explores. First, it considers what type of AGI is under discussion before outlining how such beings could be ageless. Then, after clarifying the type of immortality under discussion and arguing that imbuing an AGI with synthetic aging would be person-affecting, the article explores four core conundrums: (i) deliberately causing a morally significant being's death; (ii) immortality's associated harms; (iii) concerns about immortality's unequal assignment; and (iv) the danger of immortal AGI overlords. The article concludes that while prudence requires we create an aging AGI, in the face of the material harm such an action would constitute, this is an insufficient reason to justify doing so. |
| فهرسة مساهمة: |
Keywords: aging; artificial intelligence; death; immortality; moral status |
| تواريخ الأحداث: |
Date Created: 20230922 Date Completed: 20240101 Latest Revision: 20240101 |
| رمز التحديث: |
20240102 |
| DOI: |
10.1017/S0963180123000488 |
| PMID: |
37737199 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
MEDLINE |
