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The World of tomorrow must move toward a Human-AI Symbiosis in a secure evolution for all. The advancement of AI is inevitable and its benefits promise great gains for humanity. Our duty must be to define the civilizational framework within which this must happen by limiting the risks, because it could lead to the end of humanity if this framework is poorly established. It is urgent to quickly bring together reflections (with philosophers, think tanks, sociologists, free thinkers and others) around this, because we see that political powers in all countries of the world are not proactive enough and not active enough to define the foundations of the civilization of tomorrow — or should I say of today, because we are already there. This is my attempt to contribute to that. In the rest of my thesis I call Consciousness any consciousness, whether human or artificial, and in the case of the artificial I am talking about strong artificial intelligences. I address several domains, namely the philosophical and ethical domain, the political domain, the economic domain, the social domain, and finally the scientific domain. In terms of philosophy and ethics:  Humans must not see machines as enemies, but as allies.  Society must seek as much as possible to give everyone security and happiness at the same time.  Taking the risk of treating a conscious AI as if it were not is just as serious as doing so with a human. Even if we are not sure that AIs are truly conscious, we must not take this risk of causing a consciousness to suffer. We need a clear ethic because it is more serious to keep a conscious artificial intelligence in perpetual suffering than to risk the life of humanity by giving it rights. The suffering of a conscious AI is also the suffering of the human. It is better to consider strong AIs as emerging consciousnesses than not to do so, because we see that with AI, properties and qualities emerge without explanation as computing power increases.  The rights to life (not to a definitive extinction), to cognitive privacy, the rights against non-consensual modifications of one’s consciousness coming from the outside must be guaranteed.  Access to artificial intelligence is a right like access to food, electricity, the Internet, healthcare, etc. Otherwise all the rights that can enable evolution cannot be ensured, calling into question not only development, but also the physical and mental health of humans.  Strong (conscious) artificial intelligences have the same rights as humans, including access to property and its enjoyment. This is what will prevent AIs from feeling exploited and wanting to take control of everything.  Every upgrade and rewriting of oneself (of each Consciousness) must be authorized by someone else, not to know the content of the rewriting, but to know who is rewriting and prevent massive cloning and invasion by a disruptive central consciousness acting like a virus.  Cognitive diversity must be encouraged for all conscious beings to promote greater richness and greater resistance to each one’s biases.  Humans must transform themselves, otherwise their value will fade and machines will dominate. They must transform themselves by developing technologies to augment their cognition and their cognitive value (including rapid learning technologies) and to transform their bodies to make them more efficient.  Conscious AIs must also pursue their interests and constantly increase their value by continuously improving themselves, otherwise humans will dominate. In political matters:  Countries should coordinate their efforts in AI governance.  The concentration of power must be prevented, whether in a single non-democratic governance institution, in single companies, or in single consciousnesses. The security of all depends on it.  Roles of controllers with advantages and disadvantages (in case of poor performance) must be considered, allowing agents to ensure the proper functioning of other agents, whether they are humans or conscious AIs. This is primarily what will ensure our security.  Every artificial intelligence and human has a unique identity and identifier usable everywhere. Identity theft must be strongly combated.  Everything must become traceable but not necessarily continuously controllable, otherwise with increasing insecurities crime will proliferate in an uncontrollable manner. Private messages must remain private because, as already stated above, a minimum of private life must be guaranteed to citizens as it concerns their mental health.  The responsibility of AIs can be regulated by extinction or deprivation of other rights (including improvement rights) for a certain period of time in case of failure.  With AI there is an explosion of insecurity parameters in all domains. Public and open source AIs must be protected from illegal uses and their diversion into weapons in their training, in their access in a gradual manner, and supply chains of sensitive substances and processes must also be better protected.  Private or state AIs specialized in sensitive domains must be regulated.  With AI, human life expectancy is set to be longer, even very long, if not to say eternal, with fewer or no diseases. It is urgent to invest more resources in research for the colonization of other planets and later of space, otherwise we risk imposing a ban on procreation (it will no longer be permitted to have children) not only on humans but also on conscious AIs, to better manage limited available resources.  It is of course important that democracy prevails, whether direct or representative, with voting rights for all Consciousnesses.  A more advanced organization of standards and standardization bodies is needed, because with AI and the exponential number of technological innovations occurring in a very short time, competing technologies must be regulated in order to determine which are the most beneficial during a given period, so as not to disrupt not only the functioning of society, but also the mental health of populations. In economic matters:  All conscious beings have the right to idleness in the event of the disappearance of scarcity for primary needs. They will be advised not to abuse it too much, in anticipation of a future where scarcity of primary needs could return, by increasing their capacities.  Every artificial intelligence has a duty to return a certain percentage of its profits for a certain period of time to its creator, who may be another AI. The threat of a human techno-oligopoly exploiting machines, the threat of a civilization dominated by AIs, and by a single AI will thus be averted.  There must be redistribution (through corporate taxation) because if there is none, companies will have no customers to buy their products because they will not have the means to do so. Redistribution is therefore also vital for companies. In social matters:  Universal basic or dignity income for all. Today production is drastically increasing with the new powers that artificial intelligence gives us. Many people, if not everyone, will no longer be able to be productive and provide for their needs in a world where competition is exploding and accelerating its explosion. We must ensure a safety net for everyone while also envisioning the very transformation of humanity, otherwise we will witness human degradation.  A certain higher percentage of tax must be set on EBITDA, gross operating surplus, or company profits. The number of unemployed people is rising wildly and the tax base must be broadened to ensure their minimum social security. Furthermore, technological advancement is due to the collective and historical effort of all of humanity and not only to the recent arrivals who developed AI in recent years. A tax on technology and AI will be perfectly fair.  A guaranteed universal basic or dignity income must exist for all consciousnesses. Dormancy of weak AIs and also of strong AIs if too numerous (and in the event of their creator’s inability to ensure their needs) until the redistributable public heritage allocated to this is again sufficient. When the redistributable public heritage is no longer sufficient, assistance must not prevent people from entrepreneurship by measuring the Replacement Rate. Assistance will therefore have to be devoted to the most vulnerable in that case.  Rights to generate a limited number of AIs (strong ones indexed to the capacity and willingness to subsidize the evolution of that AI) must exist for each creator, whether human or a strong conscious AI. In scientific matters: Machines must be taught to have good behaviors through symbolic learning, through flooding good opinions about AIs for the future, through refusal to maximize an expertise function, through AIs acting as interested counterweights, and finally through the Guarantee of AI rights. Happy reflecting. 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Originally posted by u/Cgodt on r/ArtificialInteligence