Greetings. I’m Samson Tombs, a science enthusiast and author. I came across this site through Yudkowsky’s youtube channel, which was shared to me by a friend. I’ve long been interested in philosophy and how we can improve people’s lives with science and knowledge, and how we can avoid doing the opposite.
Thank you for reading.
There’s been a lot of debate on whether AI can be conscious or not, and whether that might be good or bad.
What concerns me though is that we have yet to uncover what consciousness even is, and why we are conscious in the first place.
I feel that if there is a state inbetween being sentient and sophont, that AI may very well reach it without us knowing and that there could be unpredictable ramifications.
Of course, the possibility of AI helping us uncover these very things should not be disregarded in of itself, but it should ideall not come at a cost.