Governments should focus on solving
the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated
problems of the future.
Write a response in which you discuss
the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain
your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your
position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation
would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your
position.
Some people believe that the sole duty
of government ought to be solving the pressing problems of today, rather than developing solutions and strategies for dealing
with the anticipated problems of tomorrow.
Some problems of today include poverty and disease. And in that case, I doubt that anyone in
their sane mind would argue that governments ought not pay mind to the basic
values of respect for human life and well-being. However, this is too limited a role for
governmental involvement in their duties as a guiding force in human
affairs. For instance, some anticipated
problems of the future include the rise of artificially intelligent agents that
closely resemble, and in some estimated measures, duplicate our human level of
autonomy and choice. Arguably, this is a
far sighted goal, but there ought to be mechanisms in place to deal with issues
of legislation concerning emerging artificially intelligent agents, both their
design and implementation, that potentially prohibits or even legitimizes the choices
they have available to them and how best to deal with deviations they make from
our social norms and laws in the future.
In the most extreme case, if artificially intelligent agents are given
the capacity to choose for themselves what relationships they enter, and if
their range for expressing and reciprocating human emotional responses successfully
duplicates the current human capacity, in effect, making them indistinguishable
from a potential future lover, then arguably, there is a deep issue for both people
who would like long lines of natural progeny and governments. One could only imagine the sorts of violent
revolts that might break out between corporate elites who distribute sexually
barren artificially intelligent agents for profits, and the unsuspecting public
who fall in love with them in hopes of mating!
Therefore, government ought to consider today, for the sake of the
future of our species, the consequences of todays technology, and its
potentially problematic side-effects.
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