[ExI] Conscious AI or a Zombie?

[Gadersd]

There is nothing wrong with abusing a zombie but abusing a sentient creature is something generally considered wrong. If there is an animal or machine that acts as if it were conscious and we don’t have a way to distinguish acting from the real thing then we had better treat such entities as if they were conscious.

> On Jun 21, 2023, at 7:21 AM, BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> How could we distinguish conscious AI from its zombie equivalent?
> The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence
> could be an anthropocentric distortion.
> June 20, 2023   Anil Seth
> 
> <https://bigthink.com/the-future/intelligence-conscious-ai/>
> 
> Quotes:
> From the 16th-century golem to the replicants in Blade Runner, stories
> of sentient human-like creatures tend to end in philosophical and
> existential chaos.
> The rapid rise of AI has lent fresh urgency to questions about machine
> consciousness.
> It is a mistake to assume that intelligence — at least in advanced
> forms — is either necessary or sufficient for consciousness.
> 
> Although intelligence offers a rich menu of ramified conscious states
> for conscious organisms, it is a mistake to assume that intelligence —
> at least in advanced forms — is either necessary or sufficient for
> consciousness. If we persist in assuming that consciousness is
> intrinsically tied to intelligence, we may be too eager to attribute
> consciousness to artificial systems that appear to be intelligent, and
> too quick to deny it to other systems — such as other animals — that
> fail to match up to our questionable human standards of cognitive
> competence.
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> BillK
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