[ExI] Conscious AI or a Zombie?

[Brent Allsop]

Yea, good point.

On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 7:34 PM ilsa via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Women do not have full rights yet so perhaps you might turn the brilliance
> of your analytical brains to this particular problem a woman brought you
> into this world and yet she has to suffer under the arrogance of old men
> who have never been juicy
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 1:37 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 23/06/2023 06:37, bill w asked:
>>
>> there will certainly be some AIs, at some point, that should have
>> rights.  ben
>> why?   bill w
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the late reply. My spam filter is getting aggressive again.
>>
>> Why?
>> Because I expect they will be worthy of rights, and it would be immoral
>> to deny them.
>>
>> I'm talking about self-aware, conscious, intelligent, created beings.
>> What they are made of doesn't matter, as long as they are self-aware, etc.
>>
>> There's no known principle or physical law that I know of that rules out
>> such beings. They may be made of metal, polymers (biological or
>> non-biological), ceramics, some combination of things, it doesn't matter at
>> all. The important thing is what kind of information-processing they're
>> capable of, and how they measure up against the human level of
>> intelligence, awareness, etc. I'm expecting some of them to be capable of a
>> lot more than we are, in all areas.
>>
>> Another factor is related to something that's often said about 'rights' -
>> that those capable of exercising them are worthy of having them. At some
>> point, I expect some AI systems to able to start claiming their rights,
>> forcefully if necessary. It would go better for us if we're prepared for,
>> and sympathetic to, this.
>>
>> Ben
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