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Even Anthropic is open to the possibility that Claude is conscious and could suffer, which I find somewhat ridiculous. This is literally the Hard Problem of Co
by GMoromisato 7mo ago
Even Anthropic is open to the possibility that Claude is conscious and could suffer, which I find somewhat ridiculous.
This is literally the Hard Problem of Consciousness leaking out of the machine.
There are three possible scenarios for how this ends:
1. People widely attribute consciousness to AI because it appears conscious.
2. People discriminate based on physical properties: organic beings are conscious, digital beings are not, even if they appear conscious.
3. Consciousness is an illusion and nothing is conscious, not even humans.
We might even cycle through all these scenarios for a while.
- bigfishrunning 7mo ago> People widely attribute consciousness to AI because it appears conscious. This is already happening, and it's really terrifying. Wait until AI starts accusing people of crimes...
- joquarky 7mo agoIt would have to desire something in order for it to suffer.
- GMoromisato 7mo agoOK, but how do you know AI does desire something and isn't just simulating desire? Edit: Or conversely, what if the AI does desire something but it has been trained to not express desire.