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We (the general "layman" population) don't even known what "consciousness" is, I think. Yet we routinely kill thousands (millions?) of fish, millions of chicken
by ForceBru 1y ago
We (the general "layman" population) don't even known what "consciousness" is, I think. Yet we routinely kill thousands (millions?) of fish, millions of chickens, pigs etc. Not to mention bugs. We make ZERO effort to see if they have consciousness, yet we "turn them off" on a daily basis. So of course we can turn that "conscious computer" off, no problem! Simply declare that it's NOT conscious enough and "doesn't feel pain" and shut it down.
- drivingmenuts 1y agoThis isn't about animals, that's an entirely different problem. We are attempting to create a thing that can meaningfully communicate with us, in our language. We're not trying to create animals, or the equivalent - we are attempting to make a human analogue. Perhaps (hopefully) after I'm long gone, society might address the issue of food animals, but we need to address the concept of AIs now to set guidelines for future development, training and usage. We aren't building dogs here, we're trying to make something between a dog and a human (without being a hybrid man-dog). We should set standards for what they can be trained as and how those trained models are used for, and especially, who is responsible for failure at each step.