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Why we should worry about computer suffering

AI Ethics and the possibility of the extreme suffering of conscious machines

Issue 95, 2nd March 2021
| Philosopher, renowned for his work on philosophy of mind and neuroethics, and a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI
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The possibility and promise of conscious Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be approaching. But can we know for sure that the experience of any conscious AI will not be one full of extreme suffering? Will AI’s exponentially heightened intelligence lead to equally exponentially heightened suffering? The AI beings of the future deserve our ethical concern and immediate action - most importantly, a ban on all AI research until we can ensure our post-biotic peers will not have hellish lives, writes Thomas Metzinger. Read Tim Crane's reply here.

 

Thomas Metzinger
Issue 95, 2nd March 2021

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