[ExI] Conscious AI or a Zombie?

[William Flynn Wallace]

there will certainly be some AIs, at some point, that should have rights.
ben
why?   bill w

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 1:51 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> On 21/06/2023 16:39, bill w wrote:
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> Yes, I am a biological machine and so is an amoeba.   bill w
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:59 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> If all of this is moving in the direction of giving human rights to
>> machines, I think it's wrong.
>>
>>
>> Are you not a biological machine?
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2023, at 10:17 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> If all of this is moving in the direction of giving human rights to
>> machines, I think it's wrong.   bill w
>>
>>
> So we can agree that the term 'machine' is irrelevant. All complex systems
> that process energy and information can be called machines.
>
> For a system to be intelligent, aware, and be awarded rights, it has to be
> a machine, but not all machines can be aware, intelligent, etc.
>
> So it's not the fact of being a machine that's significant, it's what kind
> of machine that matters.
>
> By which I mean, how complex, and in what ways. I agree that giving a lawn
> mower human rights would be nonsense, but there will certainly be some AIs,
> at some point, that should have rights. We almost certainly don't have such
> AIs yet, but we will.
>
> Ben
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