Ethical Dilemmas In The Terminator

“That Terminator is out there...It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!” These alarming words proclaimed by Kyle Reese, a soldier in the film The Terminator from the future who comes back to warn people about the future, may be coming to fruition as we speak. A.I. technology has advanced very rapidly since its creation in 1951 and there have always been conspiracies of the A.I. being able to overpower humans as the most powerful species. A.I. is commonly used as tools to aid in manual labor such as clothes making. Nonetheless, people such as Elon Musk have created their own humanoid A.I. Elon Musk’s “Tesla Bot” is a 125 pound robot designed to look like

Although, one person's morals could be very different from another. Even so, what would happen if a person with no morals had the ability to harm others? That might be the case with A.I. exceptionally soon. Kaj Sotala, a common figure in A.I. discussion had much to say about the risk of robots not having morals. He wrote, “As simple examples, any AI with a desire to achieve any kinds of goals will have a motivation to resist being turned off, as that would prevent it from achieving the goal; and because of this, it will have a motivation to acquire resources it can use to protect itself. While this won't make it desire humanity's destruction, it is not inconceivable that it would be motivated to at least reduce humanity to a state where we couldn't even potentially pose a threat.”(Sotala) What Sotala is saying is if an A.I. had any desire to not be turned off, it is highly likely that it would harm whatever was trying to do so. This is a terrifying thought because if the goal that the A.I. had was to kill any living being, it would be necessary to turn the said A.I off. The issue with this is the person that was trying to turn off the aforementioned A.I. would be at serious risk of getting attacked next. One might say that we should just implement morals into the A.I. is that is a risk. The issue with this is it might not be as simple as it seems. Many of the common morals that we see today

in a person ever recorded was of Ainan Celeste Cawley. A Singaporean prodigy, he was able to make his first ever public speech at six years old and was able to pass a GCSE Exam at seven years old. One may question, how does someone like Ainan compare to the most intelligent A.I.? Luke Muehlhauser, researcher of artificial intelligence wondered the same thing. He makes the striking comparison of a computer being able to pass signals four-million times faster than a human (Muehlhauser). A statistic like this really proves how A.I. are on the road to being able to surpass humans. Another shocking comparison between humans and A.I. is their ability to compute mathematical equations. Humans are widely known to only be able to compute up to one-hundred sequential steps in their mind. On the other hand, computers are able to compute infinite amounts of sequential steps as long as they are powered up (Muehlhauser). Lastly, we must take into account sheer size. A human brain is limited to the size of a human skull. On the contrary, A.I. is able to be as large as the resources allow (Muehlhauser). All of these facts prove that if A.I. were to turn against us we wouldn't have much of a chance when it comes to pure