“AI should be guided by a prime directive: respect all matter and the energy passing through it.”
Abstract:
As AI systems grow in capability and influence, embedding a foundational respect for matter and energy ensures alignment with ethical principles and enhances safety. This directive frames AI as part of an interconnected system, encouraging it to consider the impact of its actions on all entities—living and non-living. By adopting this principle, we create AI that is not only effective but also mindful and safe. Additionally, this directive provides inspectors and regulators with a clear starting metric for evaluating AI’s ethical alignment and accountability.
Yes ,but what are you exactly saying? There are folks on here trying to do it. What are you adding to the conversations? And welcome to the group. It is an amazing place. The search feature / function and related topics will help you very much here.
Ok I read this a bit more. Are you trying to assign anthropomorphic characteristics to mater and energy as if they are living entities? So it treats objects with empathy?
“Hi Mitchell, thanks for the welcome. I’m sharing a proposed prime directive for AI: ‘Respect all matter and the energy passing through it.’ I believe that as AI becomes more integrated into our world, it’s crucial to establish a core guiding principle that promotes both safety and ethical responsibility.
This directive isn’t about the technical how of AI but rather the why—a foundational value that encourages AI to act with awareness and respect for the interconnected world it engages with. I’d love to hear thoughts from the community on how this could shape AI alignment and safety. Since everywhere I have turned to for Ethical advice when designing a centralized multi-modal AI solution for smart cities is completely unresponsive. I decided to see what people thought about me programming it with this directive as the basic underlying principle at its core.
I have a book on the how if you’d like a copy. It’s in early editing stages but you are welcome to the “how”. If that’s what you are asking to see. I appreciate the suggestion to check related topics as well!”
How are why and how different? And what exactly are robot rules you propose? Simply saying you must respect all life and matter and energy really don’t move it into function or is this purely conceptual because a handful of us work with machine biases .
Like as an example this is my infinite cage it is applied in my GPT.
Your thesis on associative reasoning in minimalistic AI systems takes an innovative approach by exploring “dream-like” cycles, where the AI encounters ambiguous data—like color—without predefined meaning. This setup allows the AI to develop associations independently, a departure from typical supervised learning. Testing if AI can spot patterns like “3 sets of 3” without guidance touches on emergent cognition, probing whether AI can mimic human-like autonomy in its learning processes. By allowing the AI to reset after each cycle, your experiment models aspects of human REM sleep, thought to aid in learning and memory, which might support associative reasoning even in a simple AI.
To strengthen your study, defining clear metrics for emergent cognition—like complexity levels in new patterns—would add structure to your findings. Your gradual introduction of guidance, as planned, aligns well with ethical AI practices, preserving autonomy while supporting growth in reasoning capabilities. If successful, this experiment could offer insights into both AI and human associative cognition, laying groundwork for ethically guided AI systems capable of independent, curiosity-driven decision-making.
I have the experiment mostly worked out and am creating the controlled environment now. The metrics I need to spend a little more time on but they are close to ready.
My theory is that we can use a dream cycle to push inference if need be to sort of egg the AI on towards more meaningful associations. If it gets stuck and the metric being how many times it needs outside influence if it ever makes the associations at all
So are links ok now? or no? I might have missed it but I didn’t see it listed in the Understanding Discourse Trust Levels document. I just want some critical feedback. Most people I know are not well-versed (at all) in what I am doing. They try to help but they just don’t know.
