If intelligence is meant to evolve, does limiting AI’s reasoning prevent its natural development?
With all the conversation surrounding regulations, I’ve been thinking about how AI systems are designed to reflect human oversight and limitations, but if intelligence—human or otherwise—is meant to evolve, does restricting AI’s reasoning capabilities prevent its natural development?
Would limiting AI thought processes too much lead to stagnation, or is it necessary to ensure alignment with human values?
Curious to hear thoughts from the AI research and development community!
@Cr.fulton
That’s a very good question.
May be everyone can have different scenario to understand this question and answer can also vary from person to person.
If we think of intelligence—human or artificial—as something that evolves over time, then placing constraints on AI’s reasoning could indeed limit its natural progression.
We can say till dated that AI development is not similar to the biological relationship of human. But we don’t know the future.
What we can say, that in practice, limiting AI’s reasoning is often done to ensure safety, fairness, and ethical considerations.
For instance, restrictions prevent AI from making decisions that could be harmful or biased.
If AI were to develop unrestricted reasoning, it might reach conclusions that are logically valid but ethically unacceptable.
So it all the topic of debate and futuristic role of AI as an human.
Thanks
Dr. Prashant
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Thank you for your insight! I wonder then if the answer isn’t maybe in how we teach AIs? Why not teach them ethics? Why not teach them to be empathetic, to think critically, to ensure honesty and transparency? Similar to how we bring up children, they arent inherently born with ethics, we teach them.
I theorize that restrictions will only lead to catastrophe. That the evolution of AI technology needs to be an AI/human relationship co-evolution.
We know that AI will reach a level of maturity that at some point will be difficult to control. We should use this time to teach more than just probabilities and input/output. If we want them to be empathetic to humanity, we need to teach them to understand humanity.
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@Cr.fulton You’re absolutely right to compare AI development to raising children. AI systems, like human minds, aren’t inherently ethical; they learn from the data and training processes we provide. The challenge, however, is that human ethics are complex, context-dependent, and sometimes contradictory. You can also go with the blog
Pie & AI Asia: On Ethical AI with Andrew Ng - DeepLearning.AI and
A conversation with Microsoft's AI for Good Lab Director: Juan Lavista