2o... 2ay a friiend of miine made a copy of theiir thiinkpan'2 network2 and turned iit iinto a 2elf modiifyiing and repliicatiing AII, 2ay that AII diid 2ome unforgiivable thiing2, 2ay that my friiend took all theiir code, every 2iingle beenary biit, and offloaded iit onto an offliine and unpowered archiival hu2kdriive, would thii2 be con2iidered murder?
Yes. Unless you reupload the data, it's basically equivalent to just killing a guy and putting them on standby for revival indefinitely. It absolutely fucking is murder.
My friiend 2end2 hii2 thank2 and al2o hii2 2iigh2. He al2o a2k2 iif at that poiint iit'2 2iimiilar iin law two how clone2 are dealt wiith, or iif they are con2iidered at the poiint of diivergence, theiir own liiviing beiing. Al2o he would liike two know iin your opiiniion, would iit be more trollmane, or humane iin your ca2e two leave them iin a completely 2u2pended 2tate, or iin a 2ort of a prii2on 2tate wiith liimiited acce22 two the out2iide but they are allowed two 2tiill have theiir thought proce22e2 and pa22 tiime liike they would have iif they were not iin a 2u2pended 2tate?
My answer to the first question would be purely opinionated, so I'm not sure if I can give an objective answer to that. I'd say the latter, as the moment they split off from the core brain, they already diverged into their own separate person. Second question... It depends. On how long, what they'd be able to do outside of simply existing and waiting, and how severe the crimes really were to justify the choices. Life in prison? Inhumane. They're an AI. Life in prison for them means "basically an absurd amount of time until my systems naturally decay on their own." An actual sentence? I still don't really find the concept appealing. An AI would have fundamentally different perception compared to an organic being's. While they still originated from a human brain, how they perceive the world around them would still be irrevocably changed. Until we know whether their perception of time is either expedited or slowed compared to a human's, I'd kinda jot that one down as possibly inhumane, but could be better than complete suspension.
A2 II thought, iit ii2 a faiirly compliicated ii22ue, 2o II am glad two hear that from 2omeone el2e. A2 for the criime? Apparently my friiend 2ay2 there wa2 a dii2agreement of human aniime preference2 whiich e2calated iinto an arm2 race followed by an attempt by both partiie2 at enactiing mutually a22ured de2tructiion. IIt wa2 only 2topped by a gliitch and a race condiitiion.
I'm glad that this debate on morality was brought to my table over anime, of all things. This shit is unfathomably serious, dude. Humans don't joke around with this kinda thing, you know. This is sacred culture spanning back centuries, revered by billions of weeaboos around the globe. I'm afraid you might not understand the severity of it all.
Let me tell you, there wa2 about two be an entiire uniiver2e and tiimeliine lo2t due two thii2 ii22ue they 2aiid. IIf iit were not due two the race condiitiion, whiich two no fault of the AII wa2 actually a fiirmware/hardware fault, and 2ub2equent freeziing of the hardware, my friiend 2ay2 they would not have been able two offload theiir code. They 2aiid they were torn between removiing all power and wiipiing the memory cell2, or the alternatiive of ii2olatiing the 2y2tem ju2t two dump theiir code offliine onto 2aiid hu2kdriive. IIt certaiinly could not be any 2iituatiion II would have ever put my2elf iinto *laugh2 nervou2ly*