The luxembourgish scientist Dr. Ranga Yogeshwar warned on the lack of debate about aritcifial intelligence (AI). He seems to be right AI will certainly have a prominent role in the present or next decade. We are ideologically and judiciary unfit to live in a world where machines can speak and work nearly like humans. All this stuff should be prepared or else it will be a huge mess. In the midst of the climate crisis many are concerned about their jobs and it will be worse when machines will make all the work. According to some studies AI-machines could substituate half of the current workforce. The economy must at the end not only be restructurated because of climate change, but also for being prepared in a world with pervasive AI. Even our legal codes must adapt for the future societies. In my view a commission of technicians, jurists and philosophers must think on the legal obligation how to buy, programm and use AI-machines. If we want to preserve the philanthropical humanist ideals to harm no person and to be good toward one, we must think about if an AI is a person or not. This moral minefild is very thorny, but it is simply consequential. This is why the humanoid AI-Robot called Sophia got the saudi-arabian citizenship. This robot has legally more rights in Saudi-Arabia than women and poor foreign workers. This shows how confident some persons or governments are toward mechanical beings and less about some of their people.

The modern world became dependant from technology and this is compatible with freedom, because we preferred the dependance from our self-made products than those of the volatile events and pre-modern circumstances. Every choice has a consequence. We choose to develop our technology so far and I choose in response to appeal for an european-wide legislation on artificial intelligence, which is more and more needed. To begin with the term „person“, the father of information technology, Alan Turing proposed that if a machine act, react and interact like a person, then it is one.

Julien Sita, July 20th 2021.