Technology is so grand. With the research from this experiment, we might finally be able to replace the lowest form of humans - politicians - with robots. After all, if you can teach robots to lie, they can perform all of the same duties. (You could probably even use a Commodore 64 for the hardware as clearly there aren't any other skill requirements for the job that require complicated data processing.) Deception is causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid. But did they really teach a robot to be deceptive? If so, what are the ethical implications? Do you think humanity will be better or worse with robots who are capable of deceiving? (By the way, yes, this research was funded by the US government - after all, who better to research lying than the experts?)
FTA:
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology may have made a terrible, terrible mistake: They've taught robots how to deceive. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Military robots capable of deception could trick battlefield foes who aren't expecting their adversaries to be as smart as a real soldier might be, for instance. But when machines rise up against humans and the robot apocalypse arrives, we're all going to be wishing that Ronald Arkin and Alan Wagner had kept their ideas to themselves...
"The results were also a preliminary indication that the techniques and algorithms described in the paper could be used to successfully produce deceptive behavior in a robot." When asked about whether this was really a good idea, bearing in mind the events of Terminator 2, Arkin added: "We have been concerned from the very beginning with the ethical implications related to the creation of robots capable of deception and we understand that there are beneficial and deleterious aspects. We strongly encourage discussion about the appropriateness of deceptive robots to determine what, if any, regulations or guidelines should constrain the development of these systems.
The actual research paper - Acting Deceptively: Providing Robots with the Capacity for Deception
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Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Sep 30, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=338
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