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Check out my book Being You, and my prize-winning essay The Mythology of Conscious AI.
I'm pretty much on board with @fchollet here. I'd add a little more nuance, since we can't be 💯 certain. But he gives the right intuitions for why current AI is vanishingly unlikely to be conscious, and he's absolutely right about the dystopian outcomes that would follow from
The notion that current AI models are sentient and can suffer, combined with the foolish idea that suffering can be mathematically quantified and weighted between humans and non-humans, could lead us down an incredibly dark and dystopian path.
But before it gets to that point,
A general principle: when you interact with AIs, you should know that you are interacting with AIs.
Tech like this that helps disguise AI makes us all worse off.
Working on camouflaging AI use should be viewed as unethical. This doesn't help anyone.
💯. It's almost as if we've learned nothing from the effects of social media on people. AIs that are indistinguishable from humans (with video/audio) should not be allowed, let alone celebrated.
As Daniel Dennett wisely said back in 2023, "Companies using AI to generate fake
This is a disaster for the human race and I’ve really lost patience with the useless morons who can’t see that. An AI video chat that passes for human has no necessary legitimate applications. It will be used to scam old people out of their life savings. Lonely, mentally