Ethics of autonomous information systems towards an artificial thinking

TL;DR

This paper explores the comparison between human thinking and hypothetical artificial thinking through hierarchical models, discusses the feasibility of autonomous conscious systems, and evaluates their ethical implications for humanity.

Contribution

It introduces a hierarchical model to compare human and artificial thinking and discusses the ethical consequences of autonomous artificial consciousness.

Findings

Proposes a model comparing human and artificial thinking hierarchies

Analyzes the feasibility of autonomous conscious multi-agent systems

Evaluates ethical implications for humanity

Abstract

Many projects relies on cognitives sciences, neurosciences, computer sciences and robotics. They concerned today the building of autonomous artificial beings able to think. This paper shows a model to compare the human thinking with an hypothetic numerical way of thinking based on four hierarchies : the information system classification, the cognitive pyramid, the linguistic pyramid and the digital information hierarchy. After a state of art on the nature of human thinking, feasibility of autonomous multi-agent systems provided with artificial consciousness which are able to think is discussed. The ethical aspects and consequences for humanity of such systems is evaluated. These systems lead the scientific community to react.