Thanks for this super understandable series of thoughts. Rather disturbing to read and only cements how dubious I am about anything AI CEOs or staff say.
On that note do you have any ideas how you might go about this pushing? Are you thinking more inside job work within companies, or policy work, or publc awareness and pressure? I would have thought the AI company modus operandI would have been to scoff and deny deny deny until conscious was nigh on undeniable
”we can at least push for AI companies to incorporate aspects that would clearly rule out consciousness, sentience and so on, and ensure that the companies can at least justifiably say that they have not built such things.”
I don’t know how optimistic we should be, but I wanted to have something positive to say. I think there are people at the big companies who really care about how their tech shapes the future. In the ideal situation, maybe there would be enough wealth created that the people in power feel they have space to be generous. We’ll see.
Thanks for this super understandable series of thoughts. Rather disturbing to read and only cements how dubious I am about anything AI CEOs or staff say.
On that note do you have any ideas how you might go about this pushing? Are you thinking more inside job work within companies, or policy work, or publc awareness and pressure? I would have thought the AI company modus operandI would have been to scoff and deny deny deny until conscious was nigh on undeniable
”we can at least push for AI companies to incorporate aspects that would clearly rule out consciousness, sentience and so on, and ensure that the companies can at least justifiably say that they have not built such things.”
I don’t know how optimistic we should be, but I wanted to have something positive to say. I think there are people at the big companies who really care about how their tech shapes the future. In the ideal situation, maybe there would be enough wealth created that the people in power feel they have space to be generous. We’ll see.