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Current AI discourse has made me realize that there is quite the dichotomy between people who see humans as nothing more than biological machines that will soon
by skepticATX 3y ago
Current AI discourse has made me realize that there is quite the dichotomy between people who see humans as nothing more than biological machines that will soon be obsoleted by synthetic machines, and people who see humans (as Kant would say) as an end.
I think that it's sad that the leading AI labs seem to mostly be run by people in the former camp. It doesn't have to be this way.
- elzbardico 3y agothey're only in it for the money.
- logicchains 3y ago> people who see humans (as Kant would say) as an end Kant's arguments would apply just as much to intelligent, self conscious machines as to humans; nowhere does he base his conclusions on something as dumb as "because we're biological".
- skepticATX 3y agoOf course. And if machines become conscious (I don’t think we should ever build something like this even if we can), I’d be the first to advocate that we give them moral consideration. Right now though, we should put humans, and animals for that matter, before anything else.
- 93po 3y agoThis feels overly simplistic to me because there's no way to define "conscious"