If you know that you have to pay taxes and face a "moral trial", will real artificial intelligence still want to be born? Just like if you knew you would be born in a Hard mode kingdom, would you want to rearrange your number?

Lei Feng.com reported that Bill Gates said in an interview last week that if robots replace humans to complete the same work, they should pay taxes in accordance with the law. This can become a source of wages for many jobs, and the taxes will be used to train the unemployed. Although this matter has not yet been decided, the poor robot will be "taxed" before he knows what is going on.

His view is, "If people are more afraid than enthusiastic about the consequences of innovation, it means that people will not push it forward for the bright side, and it is better to control the situation by taxing it than to ban it altogether."

Gates understands the truth that "anything that can be solved with money is not a problem." Aren’t you humans just afraid of losing your job and having no income? Take the money and let us robots develop freely.

But things are not that simple. In addition to economic constraints, there are also many organizations trying to control robots from an "ideological" perspective, and have established ethics committees.

The loudest voice is Elon Musk’s new participation. Musk himself once said in an interview, "It is a non-profit organization that promotes the development of artificial intelligence. In essence, it is a research and development laboratory. It opposes large companies controlling super-intelligent systems and using them to make huge profits, and opposes the government's use of artificial intelligence systems to gain greater privileges and use them to oppress the people."

The organization's mission is not only to promote the development of digital intelligence, but also to discuss how humans can use this technology ethically and effectively. Before this organization was officially established, it had received US$1 billion (or more) in financing.

Musk often advocates the threat of artificial intelligence on the Internet, although his Tesla is also considered a part of artificial intelligence, and there have been problems with liability determination in car accidents. He has also received a lot of criticism due to his loud mouth and frequent criticism of artificial intelligence. For example, Oren, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, said that "Musk is very irresponsible and hypocritical." However, it is not that he is not worried about "malicious" artificial intelligence, but believes that this will happen in 50 or even 100 years.

But many people do plan ahead.

In a 2016 report, UNESCO and the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology discussed that the manufacture and use of robots has promoted the progress of artificial intelligence, as well as the social and ethical issues brought about by progress. When an accident occurs due to a robot's operating failure and liability issues arise, the report even proposes that intelligent robots can be held responsible, because intelligent robots do have unprecedented autonomy and the ability to make decisions independently.

Leifeng.com also reported that killer robots ( ) have also appeared in discussions at the United Nations.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) is more pragmatic, publishing a set of ethical guidelines for robots last year. BSI is the British national standards organization with a history of more than 100 years and is highly authoritative around the world. The name of the ethical guideline it issued is "Guidelines for the Ethical Design and Application of Robots and Machine Systems". It is mainly targeted at robot design researchers and manufacturers and guides them on how to conduct a moral risk assessment on a robot. The ultimate goal is to ensure that intelligent robots produced by humans can be integrated into the existing moral norms of human society.

Faced with cutting-edge topics such as robot ethics, there are also many academic institutions participating.

At the beginning of the year, the MIT Media Lab collaborated with Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society to launch an AI ethics research plan estimated to cost $27 million. Lei Feng.com learned that they want to solve the humanistic and moral issues brought about by artificial intelligence, study how it should bear social responsibilities (such as ensuring fairness in education and justice), and help the public understand the complexity and diversity of artificial intelligence.

Perhaps more important are the projects being initiated by the companies promoting AI themselves. Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft (Apple later joined) jointly established the Artificial Intelligence Alliance (on AI) to address issues such as the reliability of AI technology.

The nonprofit is dedicated to finding best-practice guidance for addressing the opportunities and challenges of AI, and is open to bringing together academics, other nonprofits, and experts in the policy and ethics fields.

Even the person who started this wave of artificial intelligence craze that started in early 2016 is also obsessed with ethical issues. It is said that during the $650 million acquisition three years ago, one of the conditions of the deal was that to create an AI ethics committee, it must also agree that the technology developed cannot be used for military or intelligence purposes.

Seeing so many rules and regulations, true artificial intelligence may also pretend that it is not there after it is born.

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