> I do wonder about the ethics of doing this ("human emulation") generally anyways. The conversations obviously impacted Lemoine drastically, and it will inevi

> I do wonder about the ethics of doing this ("human emulation") generally anyways. The conversations obviously impacted Lemoine drastically, and it will inevitably do that with others. Having made systems that can be this convincing (at least for some subset of the population), is this really something that we should continue pursuing? What is the scientific value? Kenneth Noid held up a Dominos because of paranoid delusions and their noid ad campaign. I don't think "somebody freaks out about X" is a good standard. The low end is a downright abysd. The scientific value is in understanding and being capable of doing what we couldn't before. It is of real value. > And is this really something that we want the world's biggest advertising company to be doing? You don't get to decide that any more than you can decide that you don't want Country music as a genre. They have their own agency and forbidding hypothetical actions bill of attainder style is questionable in wisdom.