The intuition that machines cannot be as ethical as humans is likely incorrect. Ethics is the systematic resolution of conflicts of interest under conditions of shared purpose. Ethics is not irrational. There is no reason to assume that machines cannot be more ethical than us.
For the most part, we live groups in which the cost of violence dramatically exceeds its possible benefits, so we share the purpose of avoiding violence with most members of society, for instance.
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How does that solve the problem? An unethical AI would.still not use violence unless its beneficial.overall for itself. It still has that option, a strict advantage, over an AI that can't ever use it in any case. Can't win longterm.
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Ethics is not the same thing as a commitment to cooperation or non-violence or a particular set of moral intuitions. Ethics is simply principled social behavior. It does not imply that everyone would agree to the values guiding it. (Which is why you can have culture wars.)
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