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A warning about 'model welfare'

242 points · 701 comments · andsoitis

  1. hosel · · focus · HN ↗
    >AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations.

    Opening paragraph, stated without evidence. Im not entirely convinced this is true. It likely is, but at some point it very well might stop being true.

    1. MeteorMarc · · focus · HN ↗
      Later on he cites an Anil Seth paper that makes the same unproven suggestion of substrate dependence of consciousness.
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