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Turing's Red Flag

Artificial Intelligence 2015-11-02 v1 Computers and Society
Authors: Toby Walsh
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Abstract

Sometime in the future we will have to deal with the impact of AI's being mistaken for humans. For this reason, I propose that any autonomous system should be designed so that it is unlikely to be mistaken for anything besides an autonomous sysem, and should identify itself at the start of any interaction with another agent.

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artificial intelligence

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@article{arxiv.1510.09033,
  title  = {Turing's Red Flag},
  author = {Toby Walsh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.09033},
  year   = {2015}
}

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To appear in the Communications of the ACM

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