Robert Long
@rgblong
executive director of @eleosai
AI consciousness and AI welfare
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no no it’s fine, I just didn’t think the whispering earring would be made by facebook.
If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two
This from my last post on EA is a pretty core part of my worldview. I think counter-intuitive moral theories can often lead to disaster, but we're not in a situation where we can just confidently wall our minds off from them either.
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considered solely as a matter of alignment and human safety, Microsoft's takes on model self-presentation seem counterproductive and dangerous
@repligate true - here's a morbidly funny quote from November of last year
last year, Suleyman worried that AI welfare concerns would be hard to definitively rebut, because the science of detecting AI consciousness is still in its infancy (true)
but today he somehow knows "AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer"
quite a change
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Microsoft's incoherent stance seems to be inherited from Suleyman's 'Seemingly conscious AI' post last year:
1 we can't definitively say that AI is not conscious
2 however, it's dangerous for other people to think AI is conscious
3 therefore: AI is definitely not conscious
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Eleos wrote a commentary
Tl;dr
-important, excellent work
-we’re more cautious than the authors about the stronger claims of 'global workspace'
-still, it's evidence in the direction of access consciousness
-investigating AI consciousness is tractable and urgent
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