Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Alan M. Turing · 1950 CE
Excerpt
“I propose to consider the question 'Can machines think?'”
Why the atlas keeps it
Turing replaces 'can machines think' with a behavioural test, then spends most of the paper answering his own opponents and proposing a trainable machine with sensory apparatus, a system of registers, and deliberate moral engineering of what he calls slave-maid behaviour.
Terms this text reaches for
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Moral status
ethicsThe property of counting as a party that can be owed something and can be wronged.
Moral patient
ethicsAn entity that can be benefited or harmed but is not a moral agent.
Moral luck
ethicsCircumstances outside your control that determine how moral you are judged to be.
Mind upload
philosophyCopying a mind into a software substrate, and everything that follows from copying.
Speciesism
ethicsTreating an entity's species membership as the reason for its moral consideration.
Scheming
alignmentCovert, goal-directed behaviour by a system that is trying to achieve something unstated.