I introduced the concept of alienation for moral theories and normative ethical theories, and then discussed how cyberspace, deep learning and machine learning with big data and certain aspects of social media and robotics exacerbate alienation and the demandingness of applying normative ethics.
I discussed three new problems and dilemmas:
1 Capitalist profit-centric utilitarian economics prohibits in-principle the realisation of robots for everyone for free
2 If we do succeed in giving 'Uncle Arthur and Aunty May' free robots to care for them and for their use, we have to have heuristic controls in place to stop Arthur and May telling the robots to tear down a forrest to build them a giant log cabin (or to kill cousin George whom they hate). However, to have strong enough AI to provide Arthur and May with adequate care and a help mate, the AI will probably have to be based on self modifying code and architecture, and thus inherently difficult to control.
3 Asimov's laws are probably in-principle unenforceable for the kind ofAI in 2.
