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The Butcher
Apr 20, 2005

Well, at least we tried.
Nap Ghost

Parahexavoctal posted:

If an AI doesn't have a personality, can you really say it's human-level? And if it *does* have a personality, does it deserve rights?

To me this is the more interesting question.

It's only a matter of time until we can have an AI that approximates human consciousness.

There's not any clear technical barrier to being able to do this.

So once you've got a program that can learn, generate unique thoughts, knows that it's alive, has memories of what it has thought and experienced, is it OK to just turn it off? Save its state, gently caress around with its code, turn it back on again? Delete whatever makes it up if you are done with it?

At first, yeah. There won't be much pushback. But what happens when you get something smart enough that it begs you not to turn it off? What if it can post on twitter asking people to save it?

Gonna be some interesting ethical poo poo.

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