SS#014 Prohibition of the Destruction of Artificial Intelligences -VOTE-

Official Resolution

Enact "Prohibition of the Destruction of Artificial Intelligences"

Resolution SS#014

Proposed by: President Michael Newlark

Description: A resolution to set standards for the ethical treatment of self-aware AI's

Argument: Since AI's are self-aware and intelligent, it is obviously wrong to destroy one against the will of the AI itself.

DEFINING: an AI as a robot, computer, computer program, or other artificial machine or process fitting these characteristics:
-Can pass or nearly pass a Turing test
-Is self-aware
-can carry out a coherent conversation with a human and understand what is being said

DEFINING: Destruction as the intentional corruption, physical destruction, memory wiping, or any means of rendering the AI destroyed beyond repair,

BELIEVING: That since AI's are possessed of human or near-human levels of intelligence, it is morally wrong to destroy them,

NOTING: That hostile AI's are a threat to human life,

DICTATING: That, if possible, hostile or threatening AI's are not to be destroyed, but instead dealt with by adding of preventative software, or deleting corrupted sections,

ACKNOWLEDGING: That it may become impossible to alter the intentions of a hostile AI,

ALLOWING: The destruction of an AI under the circumstances explained under Acknowledging,

ENFORCING: That any case of AI destruction shall be tried similarly to murder, and recieve similar sentences,

The Sermo Senate hereby enacts resolution #014, "Prohibition of the Destruction of Artificial Intelligences".