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RE: Should AI be conscious?
That's an overly pessimistic view. The world has gotten exponentially better over time. E.g. this century has been far and away the most peaceful in human history despite the Iraq War, ISIS and Syrian conflicts. I wrote a post about this a long while ago - over time, humans have become far more benevolent and made massive progress by nearly every metric. (with one major exception, destroying the environment) There's reason to believe that AI will continue this trend towards greater intelligence and benevolence.
PS: This is like deja-vu, I'm fairly certain I wrote a very similar reply to your pessimism a few days ago. :)
Did you? I don't really remember, but could be :)
I can look from optimism side and what you call pessimism side to almost anything. I tend to take the somewhat pessimism side regarding AI when making conversation about it, since many people do not see the danger that could become reality and for instance say not so good things when I state we will integrate AI with human brains, and we even have to, to be able to survive. I'd not say, it will become reality, but the change is not 0 for it not to become dangerous. That is simply logic, and risk assessments :)
I really think we have the same thought in general, you take the glass is half full approach and I take the opposite, the glass s half empty approach. But the glass is half full, ie the thoughts and realities are the same :) BTW, if I would have exactly the same view like you, we would not have this conversation, and therefor we would not get exposed to different views that will help to re-evaluate our own views. As a matter of fact, for the sake of good discussion I regularly take a different view then my conversation partners, to spike the discussion, the get the different views better across the table and analysed :)
For sure, there's a non-zero chance, but I believe this is something that can be worked through. Thanks for the good conversation :)
Thank you as well! I appreciate it really much.