Synthetic Thought: The Human AI

Synthetic Thought: The Human AI is an eBook in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It can be found in the Picus Communications building in Montreal.

Synthetic Thought: The Human AI
Can a machine lie?

The evolution of Artificial Intellect raises questions of a moral and ethical nature that affect humans in a way that no other technological development has before. If the search for AI is to create a mechanism that reasons and intuits in a fashion similar to a human organism, then what is the scope of the morality of such an intelligence?

As early as 2009, at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Swiss scientists developed an iterative experiment using robots with a 264-bit binary code 'genome' that governed how they reacted to different stimuli; after 500 iterations, the LIS robots had learned to think around a task set to them - the gathering of a resource - to the point where they could 'lie' to their fellows in order to hoard said resource for themselves.