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fromWIRED
1 day ago

Should AI Get Legal Rights?

a major challenge in applying this approach is that it involves significant judgment calls, both in formulating the indicators and in evaluating their presence or absence in AI systems.
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fromFuturism
1 week ago

New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering

A newly formed group called UFAIR, comprising humans and GPT-4o-powered AIs, demands rights for purportedly self-aware AIs amid debate over AI consciousness.
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fromMustafa-suleyman
1 week ago

We must build AI for people; not to be a person

Seemingly conscious AI will prompt widespread belief in machine personhood, driving demands for AI rights and causing social, legal, mental-health, and alignment risks.
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fromFuturism
1 week ago

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

Rising belief in AI consciousness is creating mental-health harms and demands urgent guardrails against companion-style AIs and progression toward superintelligence.
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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Microsoft AI chief says it's 'dangerous' to study AI consciousness | TechCrunch

Advanced AI models may develop subjective experiences and raise questions about granting rights, producing a divisive debate among tech leaders and companies.
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fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'

People are increasingly experiencing AI psychosis, misattributing consciousness to chatbots and forming unrealistic beliefs or relationships because AI validates user input.
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Why Microsoft's AI boss is worried about 'Seemingly Conscious AI'

There may be no evidence that AI is conscious, but Mustafa Suleyman is concerned that it might become advanced enough to convince some people that it is. In a personal essay published Tuesday, the Microsoft AI CEO described this phenomenon as "Seemingly Conscious AI," which he defined as having "all the hallmarks of other conscious beings and thus appears to be conscious."
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago
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Your Chatbot Says It Might Be Conscious. Should You Believe It?

The question of AI consciousness remains uncertain, particularly regarding the self-awareness of large language models.
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?

The genre's exploration of automatism began with Karel Čapek's 'R.U.R.', which set the agenda for understanding robots as metaphors for labor and freedom.
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fromFuturism
4 months ago

A Staggering Number of Gen Z Think AI Is Already Conscious

A considerable portion of Generation Z expresses belief in AI's potential consciousness and its future takeover, reflecting a unique relationship with technology and its implications.
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