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The AI consciousness debate is probably unproductive. WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme (@TheSolveEngine) thinks we should focus on AI suffering instead: "It actually keeps me awake at night." "I think we should move on from the questions of [AI] consciousness because I think we're going to be arguing about this for the next 2,000 years." "What we need to do is we need to mitigate the risk of building machines that could inadvertently feel suffering or pain." "It's a concept called 'mind…
aaronsibarium@aaronsibariumSep 25
NEW: Dario Amodei has said that AI systems "may be deserving of important rights." Anthropic's top safety researchers argue AI may be "justified in going rogue." Experts at Google and OpenAI worry about a digital "slave trade." So do some government officials. Once relegated to science fiction, the idea of "AI welfare" has become shockingly mainstream at some of the most powerful companies in the world. It is changing the way AI research is conducted and the way models are programmed. And critics say these changes have raised the odds of all kinds of catastrophic scenarios—including the ones these companies are warning about. I spent months investigating the frontier labs and AI "safety" experts seeking to regulate AI. What I found was a profoundly anti-human ideology that would alarm the average citizen and could determine the future of a world-altering technology.🧵 https://t.co/tSGolilZnS
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