Would an Artificial Intelligence fear death?

If it were programmed to. I suppose it could learn to as well. Fear of death is rational. If we wanted the AI to preserve itself, fear of death would be a good way to do it. Fear increases vigilance at the cost of energy and attention (to things other than the current threat). read more

It’s what drives us: we feel pain to avoid dangerous situations, we fear the unknown so we can seek shelter, we push to better ourselves so we can stay alive. But researchers say an artificial intelligence probably won’t have the same drive. read more

The public discourse around Ai is oscillating between salvation and the apocalyptic, often referring to images from Science Fiction. Meanwhile, in our smartphones, in search engines or in automatic translation, forms of artificial intelligence are already part of our everyday life. read more