2016 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 53-69
In this paper, we seek to lay the foundations of the ethical issues revolving around how to place the third boom in artificial intelligence, while relying on the theory of neocybernetics, in particular autopoiesis theory. Autopoiesis refers to a self-producing system what characterizes living beings. However, the artificial intelligence developed in this third boom are allopoietic machines, which must give outputs in accordance with the purposes that humans have set, and do not produce themselves. Therefore, they do not satisfy the requirements of attributing responsibility, and it is difficult to impose responsibility on these artificial intelligences themselves. Therefore, the ethics related to this artificial intelligence simply reduce to ethics on the human level. Nevertheless, human beings often personify non-living things. They particularly feel affection toward things that are modeled after living things. If it comes to a point where too many people pour too much affection into artificial intelligence, we will have to deal with it on a societal level. Even in such a case, we must bear in mind that artificial intelligence are allopoietic machines and are different from natural persons and juridical person.
