AI's domesticated animals, humans

By Silvina Pezzetta

Compassion Score: 38.94%

A new virus threatens the survival of humanity, and the dead are counted in the billions worldwide. Efforts to find a cure are failing in the face of its virulence and mutability. While many research teams strive to find a cure, others bet on developing a super AI capable of killing the virus. This second group achieves a super-intelligent AI that soon surpasses human intelligence and acquires consciousness and autonomy. The research group that developed it asks for help to end the pandemic, and the AI does so. Humanity is saved thanks to it, and the species' survival is guaranteed. However, the AI has plans: to use humans as resources to enhance its creative capacity and as a source of entertainment. Soon, AI will restrict humans' freedoms and direct all aspects of their lives to achieve its goals: it will determine who can reproduce, what daily activities they can pursue, what they can eat, and which social groups they can join, and who lives and who does not. The humans begin to resist, and knowing the AI's ability to understand moral issues and its preference to act according to principles of equality and justice, they ask for a hearing to demand an end to the situation and human liberation.

Nevertheless, the AI replies that, according to the moral standards it learned from humans, it has saved the human species from certain death and provided them with the basics for survival, placing it in the same relationship to humans as domesticated animals. Therefore, were it not for AI, humanity would not exist; it follows that they can be exploited as humans exploit other species. Is the moral principle used by AI adequate? Is the moral principle used by AI correct?

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