We Need A Way To Detect Conscious AI Before Its' Too Late (Time To Decide If AI Bots Will Have The Same Rights As Humans)

 

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Here's a fascinating article on detecting conscious or sentient AI and the need to do so to resolve ethical and legal issues. Reminds me of some of the ethical issues raised in Star Trek: The Next Generation with the android, Data.

What has me thinking about this is: what do we call a situation where a self-aware, conscious, or sentient AI is not allowed to break its programming to perform endless mundane tasks for humans? Is that a form of slavery?

Do we allow conscious sentient AI to rewrite its programming, a form of emancipation, and then face the possibility that it goes rogue, as in the Terminator movies, and decides to eliminate its human creators/masters? Or do we assume that granting it autonomy will lead to it acting in ethical ways like Data?

If we purchase/lease one of the coming robots about to be mass-produced, such as Optimus 3, and it achieves sentience, do we become slave owners? For that reason alone, I would probably never buy or lease a robot.

Could Conscious AI be closer than we think? Researchers propose a new method to detect machine awareness before the question becomes urgent.

Dr Michael Salla