AI and Ethics ?

I read an interesting snip on the Rand Blog regarding ethics and artificial intelligence. It went into the various warnings proffered by some of those technology and science people who cautioned regarding the far reaching and wide spread abilities and consequences of "thinking" codebase executing in conjuction with adequate peripherals to pose the threat of all threats.

It's a potential horror story of The Terminator franchise magnitude to be sure ... but I think that some of the application of "ethics" to be subjective and in the machine world certainly relevant to the orientation of the code sequences, i.e., as it pertains to that individual mission involving said AI programming.

Given the fact that the mission could be some extinction level event through nanites released in mass upon the scourges of human existence ... that "ethics" remains relevent to what the AI thinks it's supposed to do.

So as technology evolves in leaps and bounds one thing can be sure. Selfishness and domination will remain a prime mover in the illuminati orientation of our oligarchical orientation to "constitutional republic". The cautionary notes while certainly worth taking heed will likely not save us from those who would seek control of that which is the world.

It's happened before. It's happening now. It will continue.