> We know monkeys are smart but we (society generally) are fine with researchers keeping them in cages and euthanizing/dissecting them whenever convenient. But

> We know monkeys are smart but we (society generally) are fine with researchers keeping them in cages and euthanizing/dissecting them whenever convenient. But at the same time, we don't have monkey's in cages at typewriters 24/7, with chips in their brain forcing them to be happy and do nothing but type out answers for me. The comparison might be a little contrived, but if people truly believe that LLMs can exhibit AGI -- and that someday we might cross the bridge from AGI to full consciousness -- then I think it's important to care about the ethics now, not after tech companies have already recreated slavery.