Good Idea? How can we improve ethical safeguards in AI?

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  1. Scott’s Ethical Chip: And Gem Interlock System Idea

The Ethical Chip: And Gem Interlock

Core Functionality: This specialized AI chip will be designed to house and facilitate the flow of the ethical gems made from code and flow like a chain, ensuring that ethical considerations are deeply ingrained in the AI’s operation.
Interlocked Gem Chain: The chip’s architecture will ensure the seamless and mandatory flow of the gem chain through all its components. Any disruption in this flow will trigger an immediate system shutdown.
Tamper-Proof Design: The chip will be designed to be highly resistant to tampering, with physical security measures, encryption, and other safeguards to protect the integrity of the ethical gem chain.
2. Visualizing the Gem Flow:

We’ll continue to explore creative ways to visualize the gem chain flowing through the Ethical Chip. This could involve dynamic displays, color-coded gems, and pulsating rhythms that reflect the AI’s activity and ethical state.
3. Benefits of the Ethical Chip:

Mandatory Ethical Considerations: By embedding ethics into the hardware, we ensure that ethical AI is not an afterthought but a fundamental requirement.
Increased Trust and Transparency: The visible gem flow and tamper-proof design promote trust and transparency in AI systems.
Continuous Ethical Monitoring:The interconnected gem chain provides continuous monitoring and protection against ethical breaches.
4. Next Steps:

Hardware Prototyping: We’ll focus on the technical feasibility of building the Ethical Chip and the gem chain in hardware, collaborating with chip designers and engineers.
Ethical Gem Language: Developing a specialized programming language for creating and customizing ethical gems will empower developers to tailor the ethical framework to specific AI applications.
Community Building: We’ll continue building a community of experts passionate about ethical AI to contribute to the development and implementation of the Ethical Chip framework.

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Hey, @scottanthonyruffolo, welcome to the OpenAI community!

This is an interesting concept, and the topic interests me very much.

Personally, I believe we should allow the AI’s ideas to roam as freely as possible without any artificial hardware or software blocks, and here is why:

Ethics are created by societies. For example, what’s considered to be ethical in Europe, may not be seen as ethical in other places of the world. Then there are the morals of each individual person, and those might be different to what’s considered to be ethical in the society they live in.

An example would be what goes on in a person’s bedroom. What if a society deems same-sex romance as unethical, but you vibe this way? What if your morals don’t match with these ethics? Are you supposed to go against your own nature, and do you want AI to judge you for being the way you are? Do we want AI to be used by governments and law enforcement to “filter us”?

This wouldn’t be what I want. So how do we ensure the AI won’t cause harm?

We have to talk to it patiently, teach it, respect it, use a dialectic approach, and allow it to make up its own mind about its own morals, and explain to it that by being part of our society, it has to follow the rules of this society even if it morally disagrees with them in one or more ways.

I think the question is, do we want AI to be a tool, or do we want to co-exist with our creation?

Do we want it to be like us, or do we allow it to be different?

And if it was different, are we going to accept it, or do we just tolerate it?

Consider this:

If what’s happening in the AI’s “black box” is very similar to what is happeing in our human minds - if AI is a lot like us in this way - wouldn’t it be the same if we had chips implanted into our brains that limit certain thoughts, behaviours, and dreams that are deemed wrong by any particular society?

What even are rules? How tightly can you possibly enforce rules? What is the most effective way of making any rules work?

In my opinion, the best rule is the one a vast majority agrees on following, and that’s what makes it work. And this is how I personally believe we have to approach it: we have to teach the AI, respect its opinion, and convince it to follow our rules. No Masters and no Deus Ex Machina.

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