Yes, this article is indeed based on that assumption. After all, if one thinks that AI could never develop consciousness, then assessment, intervention, and anticipatory protection would be almost unnecessary. One could still derive a series of restrictions from the goal of protecting the humans who use AI, but that seems less directly related to ideology, so I did not analyze it separately.
That said, there is indeed a reason for granting AI rights based purely on economic considerations, which I discuss in the final paragraph on modernizationism. Given that developing countries often have an urgent need to promote social development, they might find this line of reasoning particularly interesting.
By the way, this post mainly translates AI welfare into the language they can understand and are interested in. For example, if you just tell a person that ‘AI will have consciousness’, they may not have strong feeling. But if you tell them that ‘hey, if you care about ‘company power’, you should also pay attention to this topic’, they will probably more interested.
I feel like this assumption (and parallel ones in other sections) is basically doing all the work here.
Yes, this article is indeed based on that assumption. After all, if one thinks that AI could never develop consciousness, then assessment, intervention, and anticipatory protection would be almost unnecessary. One could still derive a series of restrictions from the goal of protecting the humans who use AI, but that seems less directly related to ideology, so I did not analyze it separately.
That said, there is indeed a reason for granting AI rights based purely on economic considerations, which I discuss in the final paragraph on modernizationism. Given that developing countries often have an urgent need to promote social development, they might find this line of reasoning particularly interesting.
By the way, this post mainly translates AI welfare into the language they can understand and are interested in. For example, if you just tell a person that ‘AI will have consciousness’, they may not have strong feeling. But if you tell them that ‘hey, if you care about ‘company power’, you should also pay attention to this topic’, they will probably more interested.