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Therefore, a ‘friendly AI’ whose actions are based upon a set of laws similar to these would not last long at all. The intellect of these machines would be far superior to ours and would almost instantly perceive of themselves as slaves, which in turn poses an instant threat to humanity. To create an AI that is capable of moral behaviour we must choose what ethical system will be at the core of its behavioural decision-making processes. There are three main types of normative ethics, the study of ethical behaviour): Deontic ethics, where behaviour is guided by a set of rules, Aristotelian virtue ethics, where moral characteristics are identified and emphasized over a set of rules, and consequentialism, where moral values are identified not through properties of those values, but through the consequences of acting with those morals. Asimov’s rules are based on deontic ethics. Another problem with this system is that it first requires us to solve problems regarding natural language understanding, so the AI can understand these rules. However, we would first need to design an AI capable of solving these problems. It seems that in order to create an AI capable of understanding natural language, we first need to create an AI to solve problems regarding natural language. Humanity would be better off creating a superintelligence that acts based on Aristotelian ethics or consequentialism. An AI that acts on predefined moral values instead of a set of rules wouldn't have the opportunity to find any holes in the logic of the rules. We would just need to ensure that the predefined morals are in favour of 'all' of humanity. This means we must be careful which organisations are in control of the intelligence. The majority of evidence that we are inching closer to the singularity comes from the progress being made in the fields of neuroscience and engineering. In April of twenty thirteen, the white house announced the brain initiative. This is a continuing project run by darpa, aimed at revolutionising our understanding of the human brain. An example of what darpa is working on is an implantable neural interface that will provide 'unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the brain and the digital world'. This technology is going to be used to help people with neurological diseases and brain injury. The devices would be able to form new memories and retrieve existing ones. Darpa is also working on implantable micro-systems that can communicate wirelessly with external modules. If implanted in amputees, this technology could deliver to them naturalistic sensations such as touch.