The Dark Path to Eternal Life : Machiavellianism Predicts Approval of Mind Upload Technology
| Autor: | Anton Berg, Maria-Anna Drosinou, Marko Repo, Ivar R. Hannikainen, Mika Koverola, Teemu Juhani Saikkonen, Jukka Sundvall, Aku Visala, Michael Laakasuo, Anton Johannes Olavi Kunnari |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Faculty Common Matters (Faculty of Arts), Department of Digital Humanities, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Medicum, Helsinki Research Hub on Religion, Media and Social Change, Helsinki Social Computing Group, Doctoral Programme Brain & Mind, Faculty of Theology, Systematic Theology, Mind and Matter |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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6162 Cognitive science
515 Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Moral cognition Psychopathy 050109 social psychology 02 engineering and technology 0603 philosophy ethics and religion INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES 050105 experimental psychology Mind upload Moral psychology of transhumanism Sexual disgust Upload Dark triad 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Personality CRITERIA Machiavellianism 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology media_common PERSONALITY Mind uploading 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts DISGUST Utilitarianism medicine.disease Disgust TRIAD 5144 Social psychology Artificial general intelligence 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing 060301 applied ethics Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Digibug. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada instname Digibug: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada Universidad de Granada (UGR) |
| Popis: | ML would like to thank Kaj Sotala for his support for Moralities of Intelligent Machines team and for providing the first version of the Mind Upload vignette. ML would like to thank all of his team members, who make this research possible. Special thanks to Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation (grant number: 170112) and Academy of Finland (grant number: 323207) for funding this research. This article is dedicated to ML’s mother: thank you for everything. May all the beings in all the worlds be happy. Mind upload, making a digital copy of one's brain, is a part of the transhumanistic dream of eternal life and the end of suffering. It is also perceived as a viable route toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, AI safety research has alerted to one major risk in creating AGI by mind upload: namely, that mind upload technology could appeal primarily to callous and selfish individuals who then abuse this technology for their personal gain—and, potentially, at a considerable cost to the welfare of humankind. Therefore, it is important to understand whether people's acceptance of mind upload is associated with pathological and/or antisocial traits. To this end, the present research examined whether individual differences in Dark Triad traits predict attitudes toward mind upload in a sample of 1007 English-speaking adults. A pre-registered structural equation model revealed that Machiavellianism (but not psychopathy) was associated with favorable views about mind upload, both directly and indirectly through utilitarian moral attitudes. These results therefore substantiate the concerns voiced by AI safety researchers—namely, that mind upload technology could be adopted disproportionately by individuals with an antisocial personality. Jane & Aatos Erkko Foundation [grant number 170112] Academy of Finland [grant number 323207] |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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