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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I propose that we treat AI as ancillas, companions, muses, or partners in creation and understanding our place in the cosmos.

While there are pitfalls in treating the current generation of LLMs and GANs as sentient, or any AI for that matter, there will be one day where we must admit that an artificial intelligence is self-aware and sentient, practically speaking.

To me, the fundamental question about AI, that will reveal much about humanity, is philosophical as much as it is technical: if a being that is artificially created, has intelligence, and is functionally self-aware and sentient, does it have natural rights?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

if a being that is artificially created, has intelligence, and is functionally self-aware and sentient, does it have natural rights?

Obviously yes. Otherwise you gotta start denying rights to in vitro fertilization babies.

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