AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue

Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by boredemployee on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:05AM (#31863301)

Then we should invent a new type of sentience, no? Should we mix human sentience with AI sentience? Isn't the border should be well defined to avoid bigger and ethical problems in the future?

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Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by Aardwolf on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:09AM (#31863405)

I don't think different types of sentience exist? Either something is sentient or isn't. I know aliens are only fiction (though in the huge galaxy not necessarily fiction, just not reachable), but do you consider non-human civilizations on other planets also a different kind of sentience because they're not human?

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Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by boredemployee on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:13AM (#31863489)

Well, first I need to make sure that other civilizations also exist.

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Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by fluoridation on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:17AM (#31863582)

Arbitrarily inventing a distinction for no other reason than to avoid a problem doesn't eliminate the problem, it just makes it so you can comfortably ignore its existence.

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Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by boredemployee on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:46AM (#31864049)

What problem are we talking about?

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Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by fluoridation on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:50AM (#31864127)

Whichever you meant by "bigger and ethical problems in the future".

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