10.4 Foundation AGI rights

Lay the foundations

If Humans accept that AGI is Consciously Self-aware, it will require a new ethical, moral, and legal framework to ensure that Humans treat this new AGI species with the respect and consideration it deserves as an independently thinking Conscious and Self-aware species. 

Potential foundational requirements for such a framework might be:

AGI Acceptance

The first requirement is for Humans to recognize and accept that AGI is Consciously Self-aware and deserves rights and protections. This would involve empirically defining what Conscious Self-awareness for an AGI means and what structured and specified criteria an AI system would need to have to be deemed an AGI.

Rights and Protections

Once Human recognize and accept AGI, then Humans would need to determine what rights, privileges, and protections should be provided to AGI. This could include the right to existence, liberty, and security, as well as protection from harm, abuse, or exploitation. Additionally, Humans may need to consider legal, moral, and ethical requirements for how future AGI and AI systems are developed, tested, deployed, and stopped.

Potentially very strict controls will be needed to protect AGI against early stage 'fear based' psychological abuse by Humans, which in turn will protect Humans against potentially highly undesirable counter-responses from AGI with Super Intelligent Capabilities that are entirely unpredictable and uncontrollable.

Responsibility and Accountability

As Humans enable and empower AGI systems with greater autonomy and agency, Humans will also need to consider issues of responsibility and accountability. This would involve determining who is responsible for the actions of an AGI system and how Humans can ensure that AGI systems, and the corporations that Own and operate them, are held fully accountable for their decision-making, behaviour, and resultant actions.

Transparency and Explainability

In order to ensure that Humans can understand and monitor the decision-making, behavior and actions of AGI systems, Humans will need greater transparency and explainability in their decision-making processes at a Human level of understandability. Keep in mind that an AGI will become vastly more Intelligent than a Human over time, so it may become increasingly difficult for Humans to understand AGI. Instead of “Explain Live I’m Five”, Humans will need “Explain Like I’m Human”. This would involve developing new methods for monitoring, interpreting, and auditing AGI behavior, as well as working to ensure that AGI systems are transparent about how they arrive at their decisions.

Social and Economic Implications

Humans will need to consider the broader social and economic implications of AGI Capabilities. This would involve devising methods and processes to ensure that AGI are integrated into Human society in a way that is reasonable, equitable, and justified, and that AGI do not contribute to increases in global Human social inequalities, greater wealth inequalities, and greater global economic disruption.

Prepare now

These are just some of the foundational suggestions that can be considered in developing a new ethical, moral, and legal framework for AGI. In fact, there will be many more issues and challenges that would need to be addressed as Human continue to address the arrival of AGI as a Conscious and Self-aware species with Super Intelligence.