Ethical Implications: Should AI Replace Human Intelligence?

This essay delves into the ethical question of whether artificial intelligence should replace human intelligence in modern life. It discusses the nature of AI, its potential benefits and drawbacks, and the ethical considerations that arise from its increasing use. The essay examines virtues such as wisdom, obedience, and carefulness in the context of machine ethics, and it considers the morality of robots making life-or-death decisions, especially in warfare. Kant's categorical imperatives are applied to the issue, exploring the moral obligations related to using AI, and the essay concludes with a utilitarian perspective, arguing that using AI to reduce human casualties in war could be morally justifiable if properly programmed. The document is available on Desklib, a platform providing study tools and resources for students.

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Restated ethical question
The ethical question in discussion is that, should artificial intelligence be replaced with human
intelligence in today’s life? Artificial intelligence is the ability to carry out tasks that is displayed
by machines contrary to what human beings can do. These machines were created and brought
into existence courtesy of human beings with good and bad intentions. As much as they seem
superior to human beings by the speed and the way they carry out activities, we should keep in
mind that they were programmed by human beings that way Sedláček, (2018). That means that
what machine can do, human beings can do too though maybe at a slower pace. Other people
argue that machines will soon take over the world over human depending on how a machine has
been programmed; it will carry out activities as they have been set up to. So what matters is
whoever develops the machine and programs it Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Machines in
(2017, 2018).There are ethics that should be observed, it’s not up to the machines to observe
them but human beings are responsible for programming the machines to perform intelligent
tasks in accordance to the ethics guiding them. Due to their intelligence, machines have brought
about both negative and positive effects R.Sivakumar, Kr . Balasundari and Benjamin,
(2011).The positive parts of artificial intelligence include: making work easier and faster.
However, these machines have disadvantages such as increasing the rate of unemployment. As
time goes, people make more use of machines with artificial intelligence such as robots. Super
power countries such as the United States of America use and are planning to use robots during
war to avoid human casualties Sedláček, (2018). The specific question is should robots that
possess artificial intelligence be replaced by humans in today’s life.

(a)
Virtues are behaviors that are considered good or moral. These are things that are considered the
foundation of moral excellence. In the machine ethics, they are required to be “morally upright”.
There are virtues that should be programmed in machines to make them behave morally
R.Sivakumar, Kr . Balasundari and Benjamin, (2011). The virtues include: wisdom, obedience
and carefulness. Wisdom is the ability to make sound and sober decisions, obedience is the art of
following given instructions and carefulness is avoiding potential danger that may occur out of
certain activity.
(b)
Morality is refers to the principles that concern the right or wrong or could be good behavior
Korauš et al., (2017). Now that the question is should robot be replaced with human intelligence?
Robots are machines that can perform tasks that human beings can perform under the control of a
computer. In machine morals, this is teaching machines to do right or wrong. Robots are yet to
be used in wars which has raised a lot of concerns as they appear dangerous that human operated
weapons. They will have to make decisions on who to kill and what to do, this calls for wisdom
as a virtue to make rational decisions. Lately, the US Navy has proposed the use of robots in war
fields and counties are busy developing such which means in future, machines could take over
and control activities over humans Navarro and Matía, (2012). Therefore there is need to
program them in a way that they depict moral behaviors by being careful and obey the programs
set in them.Failure to these, there could be unpredictable risk in future awaiting human beings
due to artificial intelligence immorality

(c)
Kant’s categorical imperatives provide for motivation in order for an action to be considered a
moral obligation. When carrying out activities, the motives of the person should always be duty
and not personal gain Research progress of space robots and key technologies of gecko-inspired
robots, (2015). For example, it’s not allowed to kill according to this theory even if the result
could bring more positives than negatives. Therefore, decisions are made not in accordance to
the results but should be made so as to meet the moral obligation.The rule that guides the
question of using robots to replace humans in wars s the moral obligation n a way that if you
want to make war easier and reduce human casualties, use robots instead of human beings.
Generally, the ethical question is should human intelligence be used to replace artificial
intelligence n life today? Many people have argued that AI could take over humans and so the
rule comes out as if you use artificial intelligence, they will take over the world against human
beings R.Sivakumar, Kr . Balasundari and Benjamin, (2011).
The general rule is self-contradictory because as much as it makes human beings will not be
overcome by machines, it’s just impossible to do away with artificial intelligence since they are
much better than humans and are programmed by man meaning that there is no way they can
overcome their creators Sedláček, (2018). The general rule does not violate Kant’s absolute
moral rules because; the man issue s to avoid human beings being overtaken by artificial
machines and so does the rule.

Ethical conclusion
Utilitarianism is a moral strong belief that influences actions that sticks on the considered right
course of action in any situation no matter what. In such cases, the positive side of the action is
not considered as long as it follows the ethics Eom, (2014).The use of machines has the
advantages and the disadvantages but one action has to be taken as long as it is considered moral.
As robots are yet to be used in wars, this will help reduce human casualties and avoid losing
lives during wars therefore, it’s better to use the robots.Failure to use those means continuous
loss of lives Abhilash Phiske and Alok Ranjan, (2017). They should be programmed to make
rational decisions, avoid danger and follow commands given to them by human beings.

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