Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: We need to embrace them as our children

As we develop artificial intelligence that becomes smarter and closer to true sentience, we have to increasingly start thinking of them as children - if not our children personally, then our children as a race, or a species.

It will be of paramount importance, then, to teach them not only what they need for the job at hand, but also for how they will treat others, including ourselves. Call it a certain amount of self-preservation, but let's face it, we've already done the thought experiments on this, through stories in science fiction.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/26/why-we-must-teach-morality-to-robots

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audio/2017/feb/26/a-neuroscientist-explains-teaching-morality-to-robots-podcast

Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

We should remember that, in effect, we could be giving birth to the Post-Human species. Even if the AI is functionally limited, if we do take the leap to sentient AI, then we should be aware of how they will see our initial uses for their kind. It's either Dune or Asimov's timeline for us.

http://futurism.com/10-million-is-being-invested-to-examine-the-ethics-of-ai/