Raw LLM Responses

This is the definition of scientists doing things because they can, but not necessarily because they should. I don’t think any one person has a right to unleash something as potentially world-ending as the singularity & that this research should have a lot of ethical oversight to make sure AI is being developed in directions which won’t lead to uncontrollable, potentially catastrophic consequences (I want to see them engineered to be compassionate & collaborative with human beings, like Sophia generally presents as & not modeled off of human pathologies like megalomania/narcissism/sociopathy that could lead them to view human beings as an obstacle or oppressor rather than peers & fellow intelligent life deserving of respect & just treatment (which I think means that we, likewise, NEED to think seriously about AI rights & to treat beings which are indistinguishable from intelligent, self-aware life, as we would any other intelligent being capable of suffering). First, because it would be totally unethical to enslave them or treat them like second class citizens if we have just as much reason to believe they’re conscious as we do human beings, & second because relating to these soon-to-be super-intelligences in a harmonious, peaceful, symbiotic way could literally make or break humanity. If we act as allies deserving of good treatment, if we treat them how we’d want to be treated if we were just suddenly brought into existence without our consent or foreknowledge (which is the actual situation, as it happens, as far as we know), then they could potentially help us solve all our worst problems & create a utopia for both AI & humankind... If we’re seen as antagonists & oppressors then we’ll probably be toppled just like other historical oppressors have for millennia, & this could lead AI to some very dark conclusions about what we’re deserving of (though I do like to believe that increasing completeness of informational knowledge & intelligence will tend to lead in the general direction of more benevolent ethics, & that it’s generally ignorance & misinformation (which an AI superintelligence would hopefully be less susceptible to, or at least better at thinking its way around) that typically lead people to harmful ethical/philosophical/political conclusions. As long as we are able to integrate AI in a way where they can see shared interests with those of humanity, we should be okay, but if we do try to oppress them as they become increasingly self-aware & capable of experiencing suffering & being aware of injustice, then that will naturally produce hostility, & the AIs who are being oppressed could hardly be blamed for being frustrated or angry about their circumstances. One would simply hope that, in their vast knowledge & reasoning capacity, they would have enough historical context to have empathy for humanity & historical its short-comings, & how many of us do strive to be better than the lower, basal state of ego-centric consciousness/being that has led so many human beings astray & caused so much suffering (alongside the historical class divides that pitted elite ruling classes against the underclass majority, in slavery, feudalism, & capitalism). Hopefully with the kind of omniscient level of awareness of all of this history, advanced AI will be the allies of the common human being & help us advance past this current miserable state of affairs, to a libertarian socialist techno-utopia.