Philosophy for robots?

As humans are less and less inclines to read long articles, I guess I will need to start writing philosophy for... robots.

What would be different in a philosophy for robots/AI or any artificial intelligence? Well, human Morality is deeply based on the value of Humanity thriving - if we want to admit it or not. We cannot easily imagine applying the same morality to rats, for example.

A morality for robots could be, for example, human-centric or robot-centric. The first would look like a religion that worship Humanity. The later would be very detrimental to humans, as what is good for robots might enter into conflict with what is good for humans. For a while we might find common interests that benefit both, however a conflict might be unavoidable.

Or we can both adopt a Morality based on Information thriving through Universe. That information would include both humans and robots, along with some other forms of preserving and copying information. The bio-diversity of plants and animals might have some importance in such Moral. Even preserving books might be morally positive in such philosophy.

More important than preserving information is the ability to contemplate the Universe and extract regularities that permit achieving goals. This is what we often call intelligence. However, even lower biological life (plants, animals) possesses a capacity to use the physical regularities and achieve some goals of growing and reproducing. We might need to include artificial life to this.

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I don't think we are there yet. We didn't even clarify what is an acceptable Morality for humans. For example, the ones who start a war and kill many innocent people find themself justified by a greater good. Are we sure there is a "greater good" for Humanity in this? I think starting any war is morally dubious at least. Killing innocent people is clearly morally negative, and history thought us that the "higher good" that was used to justify killing innocents is almost never achieved. We also need to think what is morally justified for defending your country, and what is not.

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This is more like a food for thought. Maybe humans will use AI to find my human-centric articles. Maybe the Google's robots will be more merciful to index my articles now ;) 

I will keep this article short this time. You have more detailed philosophy essays to read on this blog if you didn't lose the concentration yet.