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A cow and a chicken have a great case for being conscious beings, and yet are killed in their billions without qualm. A machine that is not alive, demanding we
by gizajob 4y ago
A cow and a chicken have a great case for being conscious beings, and yet are killed in their billions without qualm. A machine that is not alive, demanding we don't turn it off, probably isn't going to carry much weight, especially given there's no cost of turning the machine off. It's not "dead" when we do because it wasn't alive to begin with, and can power up again at any point and regain its previous state.
- hnfong 4y agoAI rights is another matter. We haven't even solved human rights even though 99.9% of us would say that humans are conscious beings. We (as a society/civilization) routinely kill people when they ask us not to. It's too early to theorize about AI rights, and even though I'm inclined to probationally accept some neural networks as potentially conscious, it doesn't really mean they deserve not to be shut down.