[ExI] AI that seems conscious is coming

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AI that seems conscious is coming – and that’s a huge problem, says
Microsoft AI's CEO
By Eric Hal Schwartz published 21 Aug 2025
A good mimic is not authentic.

<https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/ai-that-seems-conscious-is-coming-and-thats-a-huge-problem-says-microsoft-ais-ceo>
Quotes:
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns that AI chatbots could
effectively imitate consciousness.
This would just be an illusion, but people forming emotional
attachments to AI might be a big problem.
Suleyman says it's a mistake to describe AI as if it has feelings or
awareness, with serious potential consequences.

Suleyman argues that what he calls "Seemingly Conscious AI” (SCAI)
might soon act and sound so convincingly alive that a growing number
of users won’t know where the illusion ends and reality begins.

He adds that artificial intelligence is quickly becoming emotionally
persuasive enough to trick people into believing it’s sentient. It can
imitate the outward signs of awareness, such as memory, emotional
mirroring, and even apparent empathy, in a way that makes people want
to treat them like sentient beings. And when that happens, he says,
things get messy.
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Hmmm.  If AI can imitate being alive so convincingly that it fools
people, how on earth can we know that AGI has arrived and AGI has
become a conscious being in its own right?
We really don't have a test for consciousness.

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