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> if such an impostor has no consciousness or sentience, then it can be abused without concern Consider that to enable such abuse, all it takes is to "other" a
by derivagral 3y ago
> if such an impostor has no consciousness or sentience, then it can be abused without concern
Consider that to enable such abuse, all it takes is to "other" another sentient person. This is not a new problem for humans in AI (imo); there's prior knowledge from how we treat animals, "lower class" (or whatever) humans, that sort of thing. Society hasn't collapsed, but it hasn't always been fun either.
- anileated 3y agoSure, some people (e.g., psychopaths) already choose to abuse things they see (or should see) as conscious, a.k.a. other humans. They are not a concern. The concern are people liable to transition to psychopathic behavior towards other humans if they start considering that giving something that talks like a human the treatment you could give an appliance (which you can mindlessly hit if you feel frustrated and it does not do what you want) is OK. Which seems probably because A) the distinguishing quality of a chatbot is “talks like a human” and B) the biggest and only example of “talks like a human” so far has only been other humans. We’re about to see what this would means.