AI Consciousness and Sentientism
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Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems ("AIs") increasingly display human-like capabilities. This prompts questions about what mental states, if any, AIs could instantiate. In this talk, I consider the question of whether AIs might soon be conscious. I argue that AIs will not be conscious any time soon, and that our credence for AI consciousness in general should be very low. I then consider the implications that this low credence in AI consciousness has for the field of AI ethics. Assuming consciousness matters for an entity having moral status, I argue that our low credence in AI consciousness should motivate AI ethicists to direct their attention towards issues affecting conscious human beings.
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artificial intelligence
interdisciplinary studies
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