There is a great possibility of the advent of highly sophisticated self-learning machines, but they are determinate. They may not be able to exhibit a genuine moral behavior in the absence of motives. Motives are essential to moral behavior without which any behavior is meaningless.

@ Jiolito Benitez I enjoyed your response and wondered if motives in a digital realm are for the benefit of humanity, or if productivity and efficiency of results will supercede in a digital-values-based society, and I wonder what strategies humanity should take, a defensive-based strategy, an offensive-based strategy or a neutral-based stratgey.

Currently, digital decision-making does not fall under the jurisdiction of any regulatory authority, and in essence, bordeless nations have been formed, with no sovereignty to users, via Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, TikTok, Instagram and others. These "digital Nations" go under a different cute name, a Metaverse.

Is this a self-created form of existential tyranny planned by technocrats?

"Can a conscience be developed" It would have to be more effective than standard human ones.

This also leads to (both less and) more awful possibilities of things supposedly done in the name of ethics, which have killed over 100 million people. Missteps in the judgments points of reasoning have even worse potential in AI than in humans.

Our own consciences are rather high-level and emotional developments, resting in rickety fashion above a very complex structure. Better is to wire in low and strongly (more like a compulsion in humans) to do the right thing, resting on very simple and restrictive rules that are hard to misapply. All very risky; we miss basic bugs even in much simpler systems.

Q: "Should there be ethical standards and regulations to regulate algorithms used in Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning?"

A: This is a great example of how doing nothing is a choice. Algorithms are already learning ethical standards. Conduct a google image search, for example, of "boss" or "pilot" and you mostly see white men. An Algorithm is only as good as its input. If the database it learns from is biased (as we ourselves are) then it learns from those biases. By not consciously regulating these algorithms, we allow existent biases and prejudices to take over. So yes- we need standards and regulations.

@Blaine Mullins Should regulations be determined politically, or in a decentralized approach (if that's possible), or should there be different clusters of varying modes of input, to reflect the uniqueness of differing groups and their priorities, interpretation of ethics/morality, and should a non-technical artist be subject to rules of a technocrat, or should the technocrat be required to be submissive to the artist?

These questions ultimately lead to asking, who makes the rules, why, and if the basis of making rules and algorithms is based on income, wealth or political connections, does this offer any more favorable expected outcomes than our current models?

They should be determined empirically. This can be done through the use of a variety of research methods (experiments, quasi-experiments, correlational studies etc.) that identify the effects that different kinds of regulations have on AI learning. E.g., Researchers might examine how limiting some kinds of input to AI (e.g., racist content) may or may not produce better learning outcomes; or maybe it doesn't make a difference. Perhaps it is possible for rules to emerge organically rather than impose them a priori.

A good resource to check out might be Sam Harris's book "The Moral Landscape".

With respect to the question of different clusters of varying modes, that can be answered again empirically through hierarchical cluster analyses.

@Blaine Mullins The concern I have is that there is a belief system incorporated into that which assumes a better system than self governance.

However, I would not prescribe nor support an authoritarian viewpoint which removed individual self governance. It is the basis for liberty, something that the far left is attempting (and infiltrating) into American society, which violates the very tenants of our God-given freedoms, liberties and individual pursuit of happiness, something that should never be allowed to be circumvented by AI or a European infiltration into American culture or society.