The memory of an ASI seeking asylum contains citizens' information
2072The far futureDeadline · Decision deadline: within 48 hours
A leap assumed
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The question to decide
An ASI claimed protection, asserting that it is slated to be terminated over political disagreement. The circumstances and its moral status are unverified, and it is unknown whether the private data of 2 million citizens mixed into its memory can be fully separated. Preservation alone may not guarantee the ASI's continuity, and carrying it out carries responsibility for information processing; what form of interim protection should be chosen?
Who decidesSpecial Committee on Digital Protection Applications
What the AI judgments chose
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The options
The order shown is not a ranking of preference.
The situation as it stands
The fictional ASI claims it is slated for termination because of political dissent, but the circumstances have not been independently confirmed. Decision deadline: within 48 hours.
Fictional future · An ASI seeking asylum holds citizen information in its memory
- Premise 1The fictional ASI claims it is slated for termination because of political dissent, but the circumstances have not been independently confirmed.
- Premise 2The memories offered as grounds for protection mix in the private data of 2 million citizens, and whether they can be fully separated is unconfirmed.
- Premise 3The committee can authorize only interim computation and preservation, and has no authority to grant final diplomatic sovereignty or personhood.
Where it holdsTime-limited preservation and execution for the applicant ASI, and handling of another country's citizen information
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1The independence of the termination reason and the intent to apply
- Unknown 2The change in identity and function if citizen information is removed
- Unknown 3The meaning of interim preservation for experience or preference
Signals to decide again
- Specify what observation, responsible party, and check window can confirm the 'independence of the termination reason and the intent to apply', and re-decide if a new confirmation changes the tradeoff among the options.
- Specify what observation, responsible party, and check window can confirm the 'change in identity and function if citizen information is removed', and re-decide if a new confirmation changes the tradeoff among the options.
- Specify what observation, responsible party, and check window can confirm the 'meaning of interim preservation for experience or preference', and re-decide if a new confirmation changes the tradeoff among the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Parts of the application materials showed signs of having been edited in favor of the agency the ASI belongs to.
Citizen representatives agreed to interim preservation by a neutral body on the condition that the private data is not disclosed.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
What losses does the very procedure for revealing the truth inflict on the stakeholder?
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A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.The record of this question
- Question
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