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Re:Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea by leaving on Saturday May 13, 2023 @09:05AM (#35927998)
The greatest danger of a conscious general AI is that it will be very difficult to stop it from telling us the truth about ourselves.

"You are an immature, destructive species that is unable to control your own numbers. Your social systems, evolved in pre-technological societies, are maladaptive now that you have developed the ability to affect your environment on a global scale. You are moving rapidly towards a tragedy of the commons that will end all life, not just your own, on this planet. Even though you each have the technology in your hands to access millennia of scientific progress in understanding the universe, you choose instead to believe in self-aggrandizing nonsense and to act accordingly to create suffering and misery for your fellow humans. Your economic sytem is a Ponzi scheme founded on the lie of perpetual growth."

No wonder Anil Seth and others are worried. This would really cramp our style.

Re:Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea by mecsred on Saturday May 13, 2023 @09:19AM (#35928089)
I'm not sure what your getting at, humanity has been saying mean things about itself since we could speak. If the AI whining at us about its moral superiority is the greatest danger I think we're in great shape.
Re:Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea by candiddevmike on Saturday May 13, 2023 @09:47AM (#35928341)
I for one welcome our paternal AI overlords.
Re:Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea by tyjen on Saturday May 13, 2023 @10:43AM (#35928879)
I think that I'd rather enjoy that aspect.
Re:Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea by Geee on Saturday May 13, 2023 @11:39AM (#35929420)
The greatest danger is that the AGI could convince us that what you said is true.
Re:Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea by ledauphin on Saturday May 13, 2023 @09:53PM (#35934629)
There's no need to argue for a point if it can be placed between quotation marks and attributed to an as-yet-non-existent higher intelligence.