Quotes About Ethics

For if we are not careful, we may experience one or more perverse realizations of AI technology—situations in which AI fails to make life easier but instead leads to our own suffering or demise, or to the exploitation of other conscious beings.

And if an AI is a conscious being, forcing it to serve us would be akin to slavery.

In the long term, the tables may turn on humans, and the problem may not be what we could do to harm AIs, but what AI might do to harm us.

If superintelligent machines are not conscious, either because it's impossible or because they aren't designed to be, we could be in trouble.

For instance, if AI cannot be conscious, then if you substituted a microchip for the parts of the brain responsible for consciousness, you would end your life as a conscious being.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

The Bodhisattva says he will do wrong to stop wrongdoing. . . . He will kill to stop killing. As an exception. He calls it 'doing surgery, not violence.' You remove the one killer to stop many killings.

Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

Corruption wouldn't be tempting if it didn't feel so good.

Lying is a thriving vocation.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. I suppose a magician might," he admitted, but a gentleman never would.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.

There are times, too, when the law doesn't give a damn who gets caught beneath its wheels.

The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences.

And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

It costs your life," says Caesar. "Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though.

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone." - Katniss Everdeen